Abstract: Under the context of global climate change,all kinds of natural disasters occur frequently.The agricultural production was affected firstly,and faced the extremely risks of meteorological disasters.All kinds of meteorological disasters also showed increasing trends in Xinjiang agricultural areas.Agricultural meteorological insurance index,dated in the contract based on the weather index as the trigger value to claim,was an important way to transfer agricultural disaster risk.The development process and research progress of agricultural meteorological insurance index were reviewed in this paper.The application statuses in agricultural practice of Xinjiang were discussed.The research focus and development direction were also provided about insurance index of agricultural meteorology in Xinjiang,which could provide ideas and reference for meteorological insurance index serving agricultural and forestry safety production.