NATURAL CALAMITIES IN AGRICULTURE
               AND THEIR INSURABILITY IN ROMANIA


                    Assistant PhD Student Sorin Ciprian Teiuşan,
                       Associate Professor Ph.D. Adela Socol,
                        Associate Professor Ph.D. Iulia Iuga,
                    “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia


        Abstract: The paper explains how are interpreting the natural calamities in the
acceptation of Romanian authorities. It describes the agricultural policies in Romania,
concerning the agricultural insurance. It emphasizes that the agricultural producers that
insure their agricultural culture, animals, fowls, bees and fish at the granted insurance
companies, in the natural calamities situation, are sustained by State. In the end, the
paper describes the typology of agricultural insurance active in Romania, the companies
which are implied in this field of activity and their importance in the agriculture
insurance market.

       Keywords: calamity, insurance, agricultural insurance

       JEL codes: G22, Q14,