Andhra agrees to rejoin PM’s Fasal Bima Yojana
With this important decision, crops of more than 40 lakh farmers of the state will get insurance cover in the event of a natural calamity.
With this important decision, crops of more than 40 lakh farmers of the state will get insurance cover in the event of a natural calamity.
In the district 45,672 potato farmers had bought crop insurance coverages for their potato cultivation.
A portion of the farmers, Jagannath Chatterjee, deputy director of agriculture in Burdwan East, said: “Some couldn’t avail crop insurance for not having proper documents of their farmlands and some faced problems with the dearth of validation of their share croplands here. Still, with the present consequences, we insist absolute crop insurance for the entire cultivators.”
The government on Wednesday made its flagship crop insurance schemes voluntary for farmers with existing crop loans or those willing to take new ones.
Chief among the steps for Bengal is the government’s resolve to pay the entire premium (100 per cent) for crop insurance. This will entail a shift in the dynamics of the rural economy.
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