World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

HAIL-FALL PARAMETERS RELATED TO CROP INSURANCE COMPENSATIONS IN NORTHERN GREECE

Dr. Evangelos Tsagalidis*, Kyriakos G. Tsitouridis and Aikaterini Mylothropoulou

ABSTRACT

The Greek National Hail Suppression Program (GNHSP) is a cloud-seeding program applied with aerial means (airplane) by the Hellenic Agricultural Insurance Organization (ELGA), as an action to mitigate the losses from damages caused by hail in agricultural cultivation. To evaluate the program, a network of hailpads is used to measure a range of parameters of hail-fall in the national administrative region of Central Macedonia of northern Greece. A statistical analysis of the hail-fall data and associated crop insurance data reveals a linear relationship between the natural logarithm of the total kinetic energy per square meter of the hailstones and the natural logarithm of the ratio of the corresponding compensation paid for damage caused by the hail-fall to the total insured value of the crop production. This indicates that the kinetic energy of hailstones can be used as a performance index for the GNHSP in accordance with the requirements of the international standard ISO 9001:2015.

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