4 insurance cos to implement the scheme.
The weather-based scheme aims at providing insurance to the cultivator against adverse weather such as deficit and excessive rainfall, frost, heat (temperature) and relative humidity, which affect the crops.

The weather-based crop insurance scheme will be implemented in the ongoing rabi season for nine crops in 15 districts in the State.

The State Go

The state agriculture minister, Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, on Tuesday said the recent untimely rains damaged crops on 2.47 million acres in the state, affecting 1.3 million farmers.

He said the state cabinet would decide on the compensation and financial assistance to the farmers at a meeting on Wednesday.

He was talking to media persons at the agriculture commissioner

Tirupur: To reduce the financial loss resulting from the incidence of adverse weather conditions, the Department of Agriculture plans to bring a total of 19,584 farmers under crop insurance cover during the rabi season ending March.

The insurance cover would be extended under the Weather Based Crops Insurance Scheme, a pilot project jointly mooted by the Central and State Governments.

The de

BHUBANESWAR: The State government has decided to accept village as a unit for crop insurance instead of block during the rabi season.

This was decided at a high-level meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here on Wednesday.