Crop Insurance Scheme

Claims for crop losses are assessed on the basis of Crop Cutting Experiments (CCE). The operational guidelines of PMFBY require the state governments to carry out at least four CCEs in every village panchayat and for every crop

Govt seeks views of states on crop insurance scheme

At present, the scheme is compulsory in nature.

PM Modi slams Karnataka govt over slipshod implementation of crop insurance scheme

With his own government under attack over agrarian distress in several states, including Karnataka, Modi sought to assuage the concerns of the farming community.

Budget 2018: Crop insurance scheme likely to get Rs 13,000 cr in FY19

Under the upgraded crop insurance scheme PMFBY, launched early 2016, farmers pay very nominal premium and get full claim for the crop damage.

Policies of previous govts led to farmer suicides: Radha Mohan

Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh blamed the "policies of the previous governments" for farmers' suicides in the country

Union Budget 2016-17: Govt proposes Rs 5,500 crore for Crop Insurance Scheme for FY17

Accordingly, the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) replaces the existing two schemes, the National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS) and the Modified National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (MNAIS).

Budget 2016: Farmers look to FM for details of revamped crop insurance scheme

This comes after National Crime Records Bureau registered 5,650 farmer suicides in 2014, more than half from Maharashtra, due to unseasonal monsoon and two consecutive years of drought.

Budget 2016: Crop insurance key for other agri schemes, says ITC

S Sivakumar, Divisional Chief Executive, Agri Business at ITC, expects fertilizer subsidy outlay to come down due to lower commodity prices.

New insurance scheme has nothing for farmers: Swaraj Abhiyan

"At the ground level, PMFBY and the Guidelines will make no difference to the farmer-as is prevalent now, the insurance premium will be deducted without the farmers' knowledge, consent and information and when there is crop loss, the same yield based assessment arbitrarily decided by patwaris will apply," Abhiyan added.

Crop insurance needed because of climate change: CSE

Noting that the new crop insurance policy is a step in the right direction but needs improvements, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said that insurance unit is still not at individual farmer level which is a major problem in compensating losses of the individual farmers.

Govt to launch new crop insurance scheme next month

Besides low premium, there will be a mechanism in place to ensure that crop insurance claims are settled early, says Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh

HC directive to Centre on crop insurance scheme

A bench, comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice T S Sivagnanam, directed Assistant Solicitor General Su. Srinivasan to file an affidavit stating when the central government expected the consultative process of providing relevant scheme for crop insurance would gets it finality as it was going on for the last three years.

Agri Min moves cabinet note on new crop insurance scheme

Of the total premium fixed by the insurers under the existing crop insurance schemes NAIS and MNAIS, farmers are presently paying a premium of up to 3.5 percent and 8 percent, respectively, and the rest is borne by the government.