The term agriculture is defined as an activity that grows plants and animals primarily for the purpose of producing food for the purpose of feeding the population. The history and basic characteristics of agriculture as well as weather disasters that occur in Croatia are covered. We divide agriculture according to: human influence and according to the content of the activity. According to human influence, it can be: intensive and extensive, while with regard to the content of the activity, we divide it into: plant production, animal production and processing, transport and traffic. The forms of possible weather disasters as well as their frequency were investigated. Risks in agriculture are divided into: physical and business. Solutions for risk reduction/elimination are proposed in the paper. The risk can be transferred to other entities in two ways: in whole and in part. The transfer of risk is contracted by signing a contract with which the other party undertakes to bear losses in the event of the occurrence of the risk, but it can also be transferred without a special fee for signing the contract, where it is determined that the other party bears the damage if it occurs. The basic functions of agricultural insurance are: damage compensation and preventive action. Damage compensation implies taking action when the possibilities of preventive damage elimination are limited, while preventive action implies action on the risk patterns themselves with the aim of reducing possible damages. At the end, it was investigated how much weather disasters affect the economy in the Republic of Croatia.