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Tamil Nadu Minister for Agriculture and Farmer’s Welfare M.R.K. Panneerselvam connected Tuesday instructed security companies to disburse compensation successful beforehand to farmers whose Kuruvai crops, insured nether the harvest security scheme, were affected by rain.
According to a property release, the Minister chaired a reappraisal gathering astatine the Secretariat with officials and representatives from security companies.
The Minister said the northeast monsoon had intensified successful the State, causing dense rainfall successful respective districts and damaging Kuruvai paddy crops that were acceptable for harvest. The State authorities is taking steps to measure the damages. A full of 13,140 retired of 18,520 harvest harm assessments person been completed, portion the remaining 5,380 volition beryllium completed soon.
The Minister besides instructed security companies to guarantee that compensation for eligible notified villages, which is usually fixed successful January, is credited straight to farmers’ slope accounts from December 2025.
So far, samba paddy has been cultivated connected 16.16 lakh acres crossed the State. Since lone a constricted fig of farmers person insured their crops, the Agriculture Department is taking steps to expedite enrollment nether the harvest security scheme, helium said and urged farmers to insure their samba crops astatine the earliest.
The Minister besides directed officials to intensify consciousness campaigns to promote farmers to insure their samba crops, the property merchandise added.
