6 months ago
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The Agriculture Department is seemingly grappling with lukewarm effect of farmers successful Coimbatore territory to its inaugural to enrol them nether Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) for the Rabi cultivation season.
In Coimbatore district, maize, sorgum and Bengal gram crops are insured by Agriculture Insurance Company of India Limited. Barring Sulur and Sultanpet areas, farmers successful Coimbatore are usually not keen connected getting their crops insured since the district, successful general, comes nether non-risk region, according to officials.
Also, farmers, during the village-level campaigns undertaken by the Agriculture and Horticulture departments to item the features of revamped PMFBY, support questioning the strategy of assessing harvest damages successful units of firkas.
The proviso for idiosyncratic claims for harm of crops being a argumentation matter, the officials accidental convincing the farmers becomes a pugnacious sail
The strategy envisages protecting farmers from harvest losses caused by non-preventable earthy risks similar droughts, floods, cyclones, hailstorms, pest attacks, and works diseases.
The statement of farmers is that interaction to crops owed to these factors bash not needfully hap astatine the level of firkas.
The premium does not transcend 2% of sum insured for Kharif crops, and 1.5% of sum insured for Rabi crops. For commercial/horticulture crops, the premium does not transcend 5% of the sum insured.
The feedback from farmers is that they are prepared to wage higher premium for insuring crops astatine idiosyncratic level.
