Agriculture

Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana: An Assessment

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) released the first detailed independent evaluation and analysis of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) – government’s flagship national agricultural insurance programme.

Publication Date: 
21/07/2017
Chandra Bhushan, Vineet Kumar
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Tags:
Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), Crop Insurance, India, Agriculture, Farmers, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Agriculture

Background and context: Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) released the first detailed independent evaluation and analysis of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) – government’s flagship national agricultural insurance programme. Across the world, agriculture insurance is recognised as an important part of the safety net for farmers to deal with the impacts of extreme and unseasonal weather due to climate change.

Chandra Bhushan
Tags:
Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), Crop Insurance, India, Farmers, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Agriculture

Pradhan Mantri Fashal Bima Yojana: an Assessment

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) released the first detailed independent evaluation and analysis of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) – government’s flagship national agricultural insurance programme. Across the world, agriculture insurance is recognised as an important part of the safety net for farmers to deal with the impacts of extreme and unseasonal weather due to climate change.

Chandra Bhushan
Tags:
Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), India, Crop Insurance, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Agriculture

Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana-CSE

Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) is not suitable for vulnerable regions like Marathwada, finds the first detailed independent evaluation and analysis of government’s flagship programme,  released by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) at Delhi. 

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Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), India, Agriculture, Farmers, Climate Change, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Crop Insurance
Agriculture

Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Performance Audit of Agriculture Crop Insurance Schemes

GOI introduced the Modified National Agriculture Insurance Scheme (MNAIS) and implemented it on pilot basis in 50 districts from the Rabi season 2010-11. From the Rabi season 2013-14, GOI merged MNAIS and WBCIS into a new programme, the National Crop Insurance Programme (NCIP) replacing NAIS.

Publication Date: 
21/07/2017
Comptroller and Auditor General of India
Tags:
Crop Insurance, Agriculture, Finance, Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), India, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), Farmers
Agriculture

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Crop Insurance Scheme, 18/07/2017

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Crop Insurance Scheme, 18/07/2017. PMFBY envisages coverage of all food crops (cereals, millets and pulses), oilseeds and annual commercial/horticultural crops. Besides above perennial commercial/horticultural crops can be covered under RWBCIS and CPIS is being implemented for coconut growers. However, as per provisons of the schemes State/UT Governments notify the crops in their respective areas. Statewise details of crops notified under PMFBY and RWBCIS during 2016-17 are at Annexure-I.

Publication Date: 
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Lok Sabha
Tags:
Crop Insurance, India, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), Statistics, Parliament, Farmers
Agriculture

Crop insurance: Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana subsidy good for private insurers, but a drag on Centre

Thanks to generous government subsidy of up to 8% of the sum assured, private general insurance companies have participated in the revamped crop insurance scheme, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (

Publication Date: 
18/07/2017
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), Insurance Industry, Crop Insurance, Farmers, Agriculture
Agriculture

44% of tillers under crop insurance

SC Asks Why Farmer Suicides Are Up Despite Centre's Much-Hyped Scheme

Publication Date: 
07/07/2017
Dhananjay Mahapatra
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Crop Insurance, Farmers, Supreme Court, NGO, Insurance Industry, Agriculture
Agriculture

Agricultural Statistics at a Glance 2016

This annual flagship publication released by the Ministry of agriculture is a rich source of data on a wide range of parameters, such as area, production and productivity of various crops across States, land-use statistics, price support and procurement, international trade, credit and insurance.

Publication Date: 
Saturday, July 1, 2017
Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
Tags:
Agriculture, India, Statistics, GDP, Crops, Horticulture, Agricultural Inputs, Crop Insurance
Agriculture

Farmers get Rs 928 crore towards damaged crop; Rs 1,600 crore more shortly

CHENNAI: In what could bring cheer to the farming community confronted with the challenges of a water crisis drought and poor groundwater table, the Tamil Nadu government has persuaded three insura

Publication Date: 
23/06/2017
Times Of India (Chennai)
Tags:
Tamil Nadu, Farmers, Crops, Compensation, Monsoons, Crop Insurance, Agriculture

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