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A weeklong drive, beginning July 1, will cowl all notified areas beneath the kharif 2021 season with particular deal with 75 aspirational districts the place crop insurance coverage penetration is low.
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In a serious farmer outreach, the federal government on Thursday launched a particular drive to enrol extra cultivators beneath the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY). Every week-long drive, beginning July 1, will cowl all notified areas beneath the kharif 2021 season with particular deal with 75 aspirational districts the place crop insurance coverage penetration is low. PMFBY, launched on January 13, 2016, goals to present a complete danger resolution to farmers on the lowest uniform premium throughout the nation. Launching the particular drive, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar stated up to now 29.16 crore farmers have insured their crops beneath the PMFBY. More than Rs 95,000 crore value of claims have been offered to farmers for the reason that launch of the scheme, in opposition to the whole premium of Rs 17,000 crore paid by them, he stated.
However, there’s a want to broaden the scheme within the nation in order that the crop insurance coverage protection might be elevated and extra farmers get advantages, an official assertion quoted the minister as saying. Tomar additionally urged state governments and different stakeholders comparable to banks and insurance coverage corporations to work collectively and attain out to the farmers in these recognized 75 aspirational districts. He additionally urged the farmers to come ahead and revel in the advantages of crop insurance coverage and grow to be self-sufficient in occasions of disaster. The minister flagged off Information Education Communication (IEC) cell vans to interact with farmers on PMFBY in the course of the week-long drive.
He additionally launched a PMFBY e-brochure, FAO booklet and a guidebook to help farmers and on floor coordinators to perceive the scheme, its advantages and the method of crop insurance coverage. From getting enrolled beneath the scheme to methods to declare crop insurance coverage beneath numerous circumstances to grievance redressal and reporting crop loss — all can be defined to farmers by way of on-ground and digital initiatives. The marketing campaign will even deliver out tales of beneficiary farmers who haven’t solely benefited from the scheme however helped the complete farming neighborhood by way of their thought-leadership. Along with the farmers in tribal areas and aspirational districts, the marketing campaign will interact ladies farmers as properly. The digital occasion was attended by Ministers of State for Agriculture Parshottam Rupala and Kailash Choudhary, Agriculture Secretary Sanjay Agarwal and different senior officers of the ministry.
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