PMFBY needs urgent repair: government study

A recent assessment of the flagship agriculture scheme says that PMFBY needs to favour farmers, not insurance companies that make super …

Centre’s crop insurance scheme not good enough; Bihar launches its own plan for farmers

Bihar State Crop Assistance Scheme will ensure that farmers have enough money for next crop cycle if their current crop is destroyed by natural …

Maharashtra may become 8th state to opt out of Centre's flagship crop insurance scheme

The state is considering rolling out its own insurance programme for farmers

Insurance companies have not paid 83% of farmers' claims

As farmers' protests demanding loan waiver pick up across the country, there are other people who owe them huge amount of money: the insurance …

Farmers protest forceful insurance premium deduction in Haryana

Farmers are confronting bank officials against premium deduction without their consent for the current Rabi season under Pradhan Mantri Fasal …

Interim Budget 2019: Farmer leaders criticise PM Kisan Samman Nidhi

Say it adds insult to the injury of farmers

Compensate Telangana farmers immediately for crop loss: Farm activists

The Rythu Swarajya Vedika called on both Centre and state, to bury their hatchet and ensure disaster relief to lakhs of affected farmers  

Centre admits challenges in implementing PMFBY, seeks robust system to assess crop loss

Failure to forecast rainfall and other weather events hinders assessment of crop loss and delays payment of insurance claims

Latest in farmer woes: Heavy unseasonal rain, pending payouts from Centre’s crop insurance scheme

523,000 hectares in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh affected by untimely rains in March, April

Farmers on hunger strike in Sambalpur due to non-payment of crop insurance

Insurance claims were to be paid nine months ago but insurer Reliance General Insurance Company did not accept the government report on crop loss

Official data exposes Centre’s inflated claims on success of agriculture insurance scheme

The number of non-loanee farmers opting for insurance reached 9.7 million in kharif season of 2016 as against 9.8 million in the same period in …

State-run insurance firms headless; PMFBY implementation suffers

Performances of private insurance companies were also not encouraging, though they had been opted for those states where risk was less

Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana is a good scheme with flawed execution, says CSE

Agriculture insurance is recognised as an important part of the safety net for farmers to deal with the impacts of extreme and unseasonal weather

Crop insurance claims over Rs 3,300 crore pending due to payment failure, delay in state subsidy

Farmers belonging Jharkhand, Karnataka, Telangana, and Maharashtra have the highest amounts pending under insurance claims

New support scheme for water-stressed districts as crop insurance becomes voluntary

Changes to PM Fasal Bima Yojana leave famers without effective support for crop losses in time of climate emergency  

Few takers for ambitious crop insurance scheme

Only four percent more farmers have opted for crop insurance despite  government’s targets for Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana

Panel ‘disappointed’ about no data on complaints resolved under PMFBY

The Standing Committee on Agriculture urged the government to maintain records of complaint resolution under the PMFBY, for its effective …

Private insurance companies benefitted the most from PM Fasal Bima Yojana: Report

Farmers yet to be paid Rs 5,724 crore for claims made in 5 years since scheme launch

COVID-19: Spice growers of Tamil Nadu, Kerala face looming crisis

With roads leading to plantations shut, spice cultivation has been badly hit

What do Union budgets mean for long-term agri development in India?

Union & state budgets need to place equal emphasis on sector-wide improvement & individual farmer-centric measures

Here's why 40% of India's farmers want to quit

A vicious cycle of debt and loan waivers is worsening the plight of the marginal and tenant farmer

Union Budget 2022-23: Allocations skewed towards cash-schemes in agriculture

The trend, experts said, only addresses the symptoms of the agrarian crisis and not the cause.  

As told to Parliament (March 21, 2023): Maternal mortality went down to 97 per 100,000 live births in 2018-20

All that was discussed in the House through the day  

Rajasthan Locust Attack: Pests plus lockdown leave farmers in a soup

Destruction of the cotton crop, unsold rabi crops like wheat and barley and lack of help from the government making things worse for farmers

Drought, but why: Area under cultivation has halved in Andhra Pradesh's Ananthapuramu

Decades of deficit rainfall, monoculture in agriculture and perpetually mounting farmer debts have left the district in the lurch