Govt mulls viable Insurance scheme for farmers.

Commodity News - After the successful launch of the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana, Soil Health Card Scheme, Prampragat Krishi VikasYojana, the government of India is seriously debating on bringing out a viable insurance scheme for the farmers, said Radha Mohan Singh, the agriculture minister on Thursday.

Speaking on the occasion of national dialogue on “Innovative Extension System for Farmers Empowerment and Welfare”, he said that the government is strengthening the extension infrastructure to new develop from lab to marginal farmer.
 

Agriculture is a state subject and as per the state requirements respective governments are initiating their programmes but government of India has always been supporting the States with relevant schemes and other strategic information and advisory for success of agriculture sector, he said.
 

The minister said that the extension is lacking infrastructure to reach the individual farmers (14 crore farmer families) and thus, looking into it, long awaited demand of the farmers have been fulfilled by starting a 24 hours Kisan Channel by the Prime Minister.
 

The extension is expected to provide information for production, protection, post-harvest, value addition, marketing, insurance, credit and other information related to the farmers regarding availability of inputs, weather, he added.