The Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, brought out in 2016, has opened crop insurance to the private sector at the national-level. The PMFBY suffers from a serious problem of lack of regulation, with there being no independent mechanism to verify the validity of data provided by insurance companies, according to Vikas Rawal, a professor of Jawaharlal Nehru University. Referring to …
Hyderabad: BRS leaders lashed out at BJP state president Bandi Sanjay for his criticism of the state government not implementing the PM Fasal Bima Yojana and for opposing Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao's announcement of extending Rs 10,000 per acre crop loss aid to the farmers who lost crops by unseasonal rains. Finance minister T. Harish Rao and Rythu Bandhu …
Khammam: Many farm experts are critical of the loopholes in implementing the Prime Minister Fasal Bima Yojana while extending crop insurance to make good crop losses. They contend that PMFBY is more beneficial to the insurance companies compared to farmers as most insurance companies are not settling claims under one pretext or the other. Mandadapu Sudhakar, chairman of PACS and …
Mumbai In a budget speech that laid emphasis on agriculture, deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar announced several sops and measures for farmers, including an incentive of ₹50,000 for two million farmers, who repay their crop loans regularly. Pawar indicated that the state government wanted the Centre to modify the terms of its crop insurance scheme-Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana and …