Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
The Haryana government on Wednesday urged the Centre for a comprehensive policy for insurance coverage of all important food crops and livestock, a technology mission on farm mechanisation and National Food Security Mission cover for all districts of the state. Haryana finance minister Capt Ajay Singh Yadav, who was speaking …
The Madhya Pradesh Government on Friday announced a Rs 500 crore relief package for farmers. Besides, announcing a waiver of taxes, suspension of loan recoveries by moneylenders and relaxations in the compensation criteria. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, while talking to mediapersons said, "In view of the failure of crop …
Weather-based crop insurance scheme has been introduced in the district for the rabi season through Agriculture Insurance Company. The new facility is available at five hoblis in Bangarpet taluk for grape and mango, seven taluks of Kolar district and all hoblis in Mulbagal taluk for potato (irrigated), and for mango …
4 insurance cos to implement the scheme. The weather-based scheme aims at providing insurance to the cultivator against adverse weather such as deficit and excessive rainfall, frost, heat (temperature) and relative humidity, which affect the crops. The weather-based crop insurance scheme will be implemented in the ongoing rabi season for …
The state agriculture minister, Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, on Tuesday said the recent untimely rains damaged crops on 2.47 million acres in the state, affecting 1.3 million farmers. He said the state cabinet would decide on the compensation and financial assistance to the farmers at a meeting on Wednesday. He was …
COME winters, farmers in 50 districts of the country will be covered by an experimental crop insurance scheme by the Centre. The new scheme is a modified version of the current programme with new features like providing indemnity and advance relief to farmers. The unit area for the new insurance …
Tirupur: To reduce the financial loss resulting from the incidence of adverse weather conditions, the Department of Agriculture plans to bring a total of 19,584 farmers under crop insurance cover during the rabi season ending March. The insurance cover would be extended under the Weather Based Crops Insurance Scheme, a …
BHUBANESWAR: The State government has decided to accept village as a unit for crop insurance instead of block during the rabi season. This was decided at a high-level meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here on Wednesday. Acceptance of village as a unit for crop insurance was a …
New Delhi: After a decade of launching the National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS) which protects farmers against losses incurred due to crop failure on account of natural calamities, the government on Thursday decided to modify it by introducing several key provisions which will facilitate private sector participation in scheme. Presently, …
Hyderabad, July 20: The Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, on Tuesday, called upon farmers to make use of the weather-based crop insurance scheme. Mr Rosaiah said that the government has decided to extend the scheme to other districts and crops like cotton, oil palm and sweet lime after the pilot …
K Narasimhamurthy, July 8, Kolar: The method adopted to assess crop damage seems to be a significant deterrent for farmers. Of the 2.09 lakh farmers in the drought-ridden district, only 3,227 chose to insure their crops last year. The district has about 59,500 small farmers and 1.45 lakh marginal farmers. …
Losses to crops due to natural calamities in the state are being compensated through Crop Insurance Scheme. During the years 2007-08 and 2008-09, Rs 78 crore 50 lakh was distributed among 1 lakh 10 thousand 529 farmers as crop insurance amounts against losses to their rabi as well as kharif …
New Delhi: In India, crops worth millions of rupees are lost every year because of weather-related problems like floods and droughts. The central government runs a weather-based crop insurance scheme in some states to save farmers from vagaries of nature. In a recent study, the Federation of Indian Chamber of …
Options trading can also insure against risk After sitting on the proposal for four years, the Planning Commission has approved the union agriculture ministry
Government Support to Agricultural Insurance informs public and private decision makers involved in agricultural insurance about recent developments, with a particular focus on middle- and low-income countries. It presents an updated picture of the spectrum of institutional frameworks and experiences with agricultural insurance, ranging from countries in which the public …
An evaluation of the crop insurance programme in India through the multi-peril yieldbased National Agricultural Insurance Scheme reveals that while it has done well on equity grounds, the coverage and indemnity payments are biased towards a few regions and crops, and there are delays in settlement of claims. And while …
With Claims For 2008-09 Crop Year Pending, Wait Gets Longer For The Affected Prabha Jagannathan NEW DELHI FARMERS covered under the National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS) will have to wait another year to receive their claims despite 316 districts in 13 states being declared drought-hit this year. Close to 50% …
Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Thursday said food security is the foremost priority of the government and vowed that every effort would be made in this regard. The Prime Minister was talking to Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture Nazar Muhammad Gondal Thursday, who briefed him about the food …
