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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | More Than a Year After Crop Failure, Maharashtra Farmers Still Wait for Insurance Payout -Poorvi Kulkarni

More Than a Year After Crop Failure, Maharashtra Farmers Still Wait for Insurance Payout -Poorvi Kulkarni

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published Published on Apr 26, 2019   modified Modified on Apr 26, 2019
-TheWire.in

For many farmers, the compensation they received is substantially less than the premium they paid.

Parbhani (Maharashtra):
“If even one rupee owed to one farmer is not paid, then the government will pay that money and recover it from the (insurance) company,” said Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis while addressing an rally ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

He was referring to the Prime Minister’s Crop Insurance Scheme (Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana), or Pradhan Mantri Pik Vima Yojana (PMPVY) as it is called in Maharashtra. The rally was held in Pathri taluka of Parbhani district in central Maharashtra’s Marathwada region on April 12, 2019 – six days before the Parbhani Lok Sabha constituency went to polls on April 18, 2019.

Just 40 km away, Dinesh Khawale stood brooding on his two-acre jowar farm in Borwand village. All of his jowar plants had wilted and not borne any grains. An empty irrigation canal around 7 km away pointed to the grave farm crisis. “Ninety percent of farms in our village were left uncultivated in the rabi season,” said Khawale, adding that despite this, their village had not received any insurance compensation in the last two years.

With nearly half of Maharashtra reeling under drought, Rs 4,909.51 crore of government aid has been released to assist individual farmers. But, despite four times that amount – Rs 19,063.31 crore – being insured under the PMPVY for crop losses in kharif 2018, this compensation is yet to be fully disbursed. The deadline to compensation farmers, except for tur, ended on March 21, 2019, as per state government guidelines.

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TheWire.in, 24 April, 2019, https://thewire.in/agriculture/maharashtra-farmers-crop-insurance


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