the company insures all farmers in the cooperative and the cooperative is responsible for paying the premium and for distributing potential payouts meherette a limitation of weather indexbased insurance is that years of historical daily rainfall data are needed to make such a scheme operational however interventions that link social assistance with institutional demand also typically focus on supporting poorer farmers who are constrained in their access to resources ultimately the aim is to increase agricultural production by small family farmers improve farmers and extension workers skills and knowledge of food production and marketing and link small producer organizations with local markets in general