New Delhi Close to five crore farmers have availed of the benefits under the national crop insurance scheme, which aims at protecting farming communities against crop failures due to vagaries of we

Post-harvest loan to be offered at 7% for using warehouses
The finance ministry has launched a concessional loan scheme for farmers to prevent distress sale of agricultural produce.

Almost four years have passed since the government introduced the National Agriculture Insurance Scheme (NAIS) in the state to assist the farmers suffering losses due to natural calamities like rai

It is raining sops in Andhra Pradesh. The Congress government has unveiled yet another populist scheme envisaging interest-free crop loans up to Rs 1 lakh for farmers across the state.

GUWAHATI, Sept 29 – Assam has only 8.3 per cent of its around 27.52 lakh farmers covered under the National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS) between 1999-2000 and 2010-2011 fiscals.

BHUBANESWAR: The BJP Krushak Morcha on Tuesday sought the intervention of Governor MC Bhandare for inclusion of nine more districts in the list of drought-hit.

ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company has been given the mandate to provide weather-based crop insurance for the ensuing Kharif season in Bilaspur district.It will provide cover for the tomato crop for the period starting from June 15, 2011, to December 15 in the Sadar block of the district for farmers.

The weather-based crop insurance scheme will provide cover against high and low temperatur

With budget cuts all the rage in government, Craig Lang, a dairyman and president of the Iowa Farm Bureau, proposed something that would have been unthinkable in farm country a few years ago: ending direct payments to farmers for crops.

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Ranchi, May 23: Chief secretary S.K. Choudhary today directed agriculture and co-operative departments to prepare proposals to extend crop insurance benefits to farmers during the current sowing season.

Agriculture secretary A.K.

The Crop Insurance Policy launched by the federal government and State Bank of Pakistan was benefiting only big landlords as there was no chance for the small growers to get their crops insured under this policy.

Accountant-General of Balochistan Mahfooz Ali Khan while delivering his key note address on Tuesday at a seminar on