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.

New Delhi: After a decade of launching the National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS) which protects farmers against losses incurred due to crop failure on account of natural calamities, the government on Thursday decided to modify it by introducing several key provisions which will facilitate private sector participation in scheme.

Presently, NAIS is implemented by Agriculture Insurance Com

Namrata Acharya / Khirsol (bankura) September 16, 2010, 0:48 IST

Khirsol, a small village in West Bengal

Hyderabad, July 20: The Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, on Tuesday, called upon farmers to make use of the weather-based crop insurance scheme.

Mr Rosaiah said that the government has decided to extend the scheme to other districts and crops like cotton, oil palm and sweet lime after the pilot project for the chilli crop in Guntur yielded good results.

K Narasimhamurthy, July 8, Kolar:

The method adopted to assess crop damage seems to be a significant deterrent for farmers. Of the 2.09 lakh farmers in the drought-ridden district, only 3,227 chose to insure their crops last year.

BHUBANESWAR: With rain God playing truant and frightening rise in farmers

Losses to crops due to natural calamities in the state are being compensated through Crop Insurance Scheme. During the years 2007-08 and 2008-09, Rs 78 crore 50 lakh was distributed among 1 lakh 10 thousand 529 farmers as crop insurance amounts against losses to their rabi as well as kharif seasons.

* Rs 78 crore paid as crop insurance to over 1 lakh farmers