Last date for registration of crop insurance scheme came, register soon and avail benefits

03/06/2020Posted on
Crop Insurance

FasaDue to natural disasters like unseasonal rains, hail, drought, crops of farmers is often affected. The Prime Minister Crop Insurance Scheme protects farmers from these losses. The final date of the crop insurance scheme for this year has arrived. For Kharif crops, the farmers who want to avail of this benefit should insure their crops by 31 July 2020.

Indebted farmers who do not want to avail of crop insurance facility, can give written notice of it in their bank branch 7 days in advance. Apart from this, non-debtor farmers can also insure their crops. For this, these farmers will have to use CSC, bank, agent, or insurance portal.

How to apply?

You can apply for this through the bank and also online. To apply online, go to the link https://pmfby.gov.in/ and fill the form. For this application, a photo and identification card such as PAN card, driving license, voter ID card, or Aadhaar card is required. Apart from this, a document is also required for address proof, for which the farmer has to show the documents related to farming and the Khasra number. For the truth of the crop that has been sown, a letter of pradhan, patwari, or sarpanch has to be given. A cancellation check has to be given so that the claim amount comes directly into the account.

Source: Krishi Jagran

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Online payment of Rs 2990 crore to 1493171 farmers under crop insurance

01/05/2020Posted on
Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana

The Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shri Shivraj Singh Chauhan will make online payment of Rs 2990 crore under crop insurance to 14 lakh 93 thousand 171 farmers of the state at 3 pm today.

On this issue, the Minister of Farmers Welfare and Agriculture Development, Mr. Kamal Patel said that “One lakh 930 crore rupees are being provided to 8 lakh 33 thousand 171 farmers as insurance for Kharif crop. Similarly, 6 lakh 60 Thousand farmers will be paid one thousand 60 crores as insurance amount for the Rabi crop. ”

Minister Shri Patel further informed that as soon as the new government was formed in the state, an amount of Rs 2200 crore was paid to the insurance companies for the premium under crop insurance. Now the result of this is that the amount of crop insurance is being paid online to the farmers.

Source: mpinfo.org

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Crop Insurance Scheme: apply with the necessary documents, to compensate for crop loss

26/04/2020Posted on
Crop Insurance

Due to natural calamities like unseasonal rains, hailstorms, droughts, etc crops of farmers are often affected. To avoid this, the Central Government had launched the Pradhan Mantri Crop Insurance Scheme. With this scheme, farmers can compensate for their crop losses. This scheme started in the year 2016, so far millions of farmers of the country have benefited.

How to apply?
You can apply for this through the bank and also online. To apply online, go to the link https://pmfby.gov.in/ and fill the form. For this application, a photo and identification card such as PAN card, driving license, voter ID card, or Aadhaar card is required. Apart from this, a document is also required for address proof, for which the farmer has to show the documents related to farming and the Khasra number. For the truth of the crop that has been sown, a letter of pradhan, patwari, or sarpanch has to be given. A cancellation check has to be given so that the claim amount comes directly into the account.

Source: Nai Dunia

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2424 crore rupees received by farmers in lockdown under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana

17/04/2020Posted on
Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana

During the lockdown, the government is taking several steps to help the farmers in particular. In this link, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has said that till now, under the Pradhan Mantri Crop Insurance Scheme, the claims of 2424 crores have been paid to a large number of farmers in 12 states.

Along with this, the government is also paying attention to that more and more farmers get involved and get benefit from this scheme. For this, the government is sending a message on the phone to the farmers and urging them to join the insurance. With this, the risk of farmers in farming will be reduced.

Along with linking the farmers with this scheme, the government is placing several types of conditions before the insurance companies, which will help in securing the interest of the farmers. Under this, the central and state governments together pay most of the premiums of insurance.

For more information visit https://pmfby.gov.in/

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