Enhance farmers' financial services

In developing economies, farmers often face limited access to financial resources. Blockchain technology empowers farmers to demonstrate their harvests, facilitating crop insurance verification and funding. By tracking weather conditions using blockchain, farmers can streamline the insurance claim process. Insurance companies can utilize smart contracts to directly access necessary information from the blockchain, enabling swift approval and automatic compensation payments to farmers' wallets.

Blockchain technology can accelerate verification processes and improve financial viability for farmers in developing economies. Gemmest exemplifies this approach by offering decentralized crop insurance on the blockchain. Farmers select crop types and field locations, and receive automatic payments based on weather data. Payments are made in GEM tokens, Gemmest's cryptocurrency. The solution is built on Gemmest's Generic Insurance Framework on Binance Smart Chain. It leverages local weather parameters and automatically activates insurance policies in extreme weather conditions, ensuring fair, timely, and transparent payments that cannot be manipulated.

Agricultural insurance is a risk management tool that helps stabilize farm income and investments in the face of natural disasters or low market prices. It cushions the impact of income losses, enabling farmers to continue crop production after a bad agricultural year and spread losses over time. Agricultural insurance products are often unavailable in developing countries, especially for smallholder farmers. Digital technologies offer potential solutions to these challenges by improving actuarial estimates and reducing the cost of delivering and monitoring insurance products. For instance, weather-indexed crop insurance can leverage mobile geotagging, combined with automated weather stations and satellite imagery, to eliminate the need for in-field loss assessments.