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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | In Madhya Pradesh's theatre of farm rage, BJP puts its money on crop insurance -Ravish Tiwari

In Madhya Pradesh's theatre of farm rage, BJP puts its money on crop insurance -Ravish Tiwari

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published Published on Oct 15, 2018   modified Modified on Oct 15, 2018
-The Indian Express

Apart from the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), the BJP is also counting on the Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana (BBY), to neutralise rural anger ahead of the elections.

Dewas, Ujjain:
After the violent protests of June 2017 and unremunerative prices for most crops in the last one and a half years, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has one trump card — a Rs 5,000 crore-plus insurance payout under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) — that could still tilt farm votes in the ruling BJP’s favour in the November 28 Assembly elections.

In conversations with farmers in the Ichhawar, Sehore, Sarangpur, Kalapipal, Bagli, Hatpipliya, Nagda-Khachrod, Ghatiya and Alot Assembly segments — spread across Sehore, Rajgarh, Dewas, Ujjain and Ratlam in the state’s Malwa region — the slump in crop prices, especially those of soyabean and garlic, emerge as a major issue. These areas witnessed powerful farm unrest, and led to deaths in police firing in Mandsaur last June.

What is interesting, though, is the vocal support for the BJP from farmers who have benefitted from the PMFBY. For the 2017 kharif season that followed the agitations, the total claims paid to farmers across the country under the Centre’s flagship crop insurance scheme amounted to Rs 15,181 crore, over a third of which — Rs 5,081.86 crore — was paid out in Madhya Pradesh. With 16.37 lakh beneficiaries, it translates into an average payment of Rs 31,036 per farmer.

That the “Mandsaur effect” may have had a part to play is suggested by the figures for the previous (2016) kharif season. That season saw total PMFBY claims of Rs 10,424.80 crore being paid, with MP’s share being just Rs 1,839.45 crore or 17.6 per cent of the all-India total. Only 11.05 lakh farmers in the state benefitted, each of whom received a mere Rs 16,642 on average.

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The Indian Express, 15 October, 2018, https://indianexpress.com/article/india/in-madhya-pradeshs-theatre-of-farm-rage-bjp-puts-its-money-on-crop-insurance-assembly-elections-5402046/


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