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Farmers connected Friday expressed reservations implicit insuring crops for the Rabi 2025-26 cultivation cycle, opposing the existing strategy of assessing harvest damages astatine the level of firkas, during the monthly grievance time meeting.
Pamphlets detailing the crop-wise premium nether Revamped Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (RPMFBY) implemented by Agriculture Insurance Company of India Limited (AIC) were distributed to the farmers. Farmers were told that brinjal, corriander, millets, banana, tomato, chickpea, maize and bulb crops could beryllium insured successful Coimbatore district.
Demanding proviso for idiosyncratic claims for harm of crops, a radical of farmers countered a promotional run by a typical of AIC by stating that the existing strategy was not of relevance to the farmers.
Expressing dismay implicit the mode of implementation of the security scheme, a husbandman explained that the security strategy is not applicable to him since helium faced harvest damages owed to demolition caused by chaotic boars.
The security strategy does not clasp relevance since it is improbable for the damages to hap to crops owed to earthy disasters astatine the level of firkas, the farmers countered.
Officials stepped successful with a reasoning that it was a argumentation substance to beryllium decided astatine the level of the Central and State governments.
The security company, connected the occasion, disbursed the claims to the grade of ₹6.87 lakh to 75 farmers successful Sultanpet artifact who had faced a setback owed to debased output of maize, successful the past cultivation season. Twenty-two farmers who had cultivated millets successful the artifact were besides fixed compensation totalling astir ₹1.5 lakh owed to debased yield.
Officials said the intent of the security strategy was to safeguard farmers from the deleterious interaction of harvest output losses owed to earthy risks/calamities, adverse upwind conditions, pests and diseases.
