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TIRUNELVELI: Even as farmers are gearing up for the ‘pisanam’ paddy season and the northeast monsoon gradually intensifying, Collector M. Jayaraman has appealed to the farmers to insure their crop as it will bail out the agriculturists in case of any damage to crop owing to a range of reasons. The district has received Rs. 1.42 crore — Rs. 70 lakh for the Department of Agriculture and Rs. 72.65 lakh for the Department of Horticulture — during the current fiscal as grant for executing the National Agricultural Insurance Scheme. According to Mr. Jayaraman, the farmers suffer heavy crop loss during every season owing to a range of reasons such as flood, drought and other natural calamities, pest attack etc. To compensate the loss to a great extent, the National Agricultural Insurance Scheme had been introduced. Apart from bailing out the farmers at the time of distress, this scheme would also enable them to increase the agricultural productivity. As per this scheme, affected farmers could get adequate compensation for the loss in paddy, bajra, sorghum, ragi, groundnut, gingelly, cotton, onion, tapioca, banana and annual horticultural crops. While the farmers applying for crop loan would be compulsorily included in the crop insurance scheme, others could join this scheme on their own. Though the farmers would have to actually pay the premium of Rs. 206 for paddy per acre (for pisanam season), Rs. 25 for sorghum, Rs. 55 for bajra, Rs. 60 for sorghum, Rs. 220 for groundnut, Rs. 46 for gingelly, Rs. 597 for cotton, Rs. 14,094 for banana, Rs. 8,047 for tapioca and Rs. 3,619 for onion, they would have to pay only 50 per cent of the premium as the rest would be borne by the government. “Officials of agriculture and horticulture departments will assess the crop yield in each taluk during a particular season and fix the average yield of that particular crop in that region. If a farmer, who has been included in the crop insurance scheme could get only a trivial yield despite his best efforts, the loss will be compensated by comparing his yield with the average yield of the crop in that region,” Mr. Jayaraman said. For more details, the farmers could contact the Assistant Directors of horticulture and agriculture departments.
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