Theoretical and practical information on insurance, risk and risk management tools in agriculture, and applications of agricultural insurance, insurance calculations, methods of damage assessment and organization, reassurance and systems of government support would be transferred to students selected the lecture within the scope of lecture in Faculty of Agriculture. Thus, providing demands of specialist engineer on risk management and agricultural insurances for Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, TARSIM and private insurance firms in particular and increasing employment opportunity of grad students in this area are targeted.

Insurance concept, improvementy of insurance business, classification of insurance; characteristics of agricultural activities and relationships with agricultural insurance; risk and uncertainties encountered in agriculture, tools for risk managament in agriculture; risk management in rural development; agricultural insurances in risk transfer; identification, scope and classification of agricultural insurances; improvement of agricultural insurances; legislation in agricultural insurance and imrovements in organizational structure in Turkey; state-funded agricultural insurances and types of those, management of agricultural insurances; insurance applications region-based; insurance calculations, risk analysis, risk price, determination of insurance premimum, preimum/damage relationships, sureties, bills; damage theories, techniques of damage determination and damage organization; determination of compensation, case studies; financing of insurance and reassurance, insurance cooperation