The Government of India has introduced the innovative schemes of Agricultural insurance but most of the Agriculturists unaware of it. Unfortunately, Agricultural insurance in the country has not made a noticeable contribution in agriculture sector even though the need to protect Indian Agriculturist from...
AgriculturalInsuranceinIndia:ApproachesandChallenges DebdattaPal,PhDstudentandTamojitMondal,PGPstudent IndianInstituteofManagement(IIM), Vastrapur,Ahmedabad,Gujarat E-mail:debdatta@iimahd.ernet.in E-mail:tamojitm@iimahd.ernet.in Asanalternativetotheexistingareaapproach basedshort-termcredit-linkedcropinsuranc...
There is a need to take a slew of measures to protect small and marginal farmers in India from the ill effects of climate change. There are concerns that Indian agriculture overuses water resources despite the country being in the league of water-deficient countries. Farming’s share is 90 p...
By leveraging the benefits of AI, the government of India has rolled out a scheme — PM-KISAN, where every farmer is going to receive Rs. 6000 annually to support their farming abilities. The government is aimed to leverage the huge amount of collected data by several agri-schemes and use ...
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Insurance products for low-income farmers or herders are usually built on indices that use agricultural or climatic data. Insurance can be one component of a comprehensive risk management strategy. Governments have important roles to play in establishing a framework for data collection, auditing, finan...
according to the stipulates of the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) of the Government of India, the ceiling on crop loans to farmers (effective 1st April 1989) was Rs. 10 000. In addition, a cultivator could receive additional loans in the following amounts at the...
Empowering women, transforming rural India."Namo Drone Didi: Empowering Rural Women Through Hal Center's Drone Technology Initiative" The Namo Drone Didi Scheme, through Hal Center, trains rural women in drone technology, enabling them to become leaders in digital farming and rural entrepreneurship, ...
Now, this ERP system is capable of generating extended outlooks for various sector-specific applications, such as agriculture, hydrology, energy, insurance, reinsurance, urban planning, and health. Fig. 3 shows the schematic of the end-to-end forecast and dissemination system that was developed ...
Like all the previous years, this budget also has put more importance on creating safety nets and providing subsidies rather than emphasising on investment, which has the capacity of benefiting the sector in the long run. At a time when poverty is declining in India,8 the government should foc...