In line with the announcement last year that the new crop insurance scheme will be in place next year, the government is going to launch a new crop insurance scheme with a clause guaranteeing minimum income to cultivators, in case of a natural calamity. Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh has said that the new scheme is going to entail minimum income clause for farmers.
He further informed that the Centre has started discussion with states and all stakeholders on further improving upon the insurance product, which would not only ensure the farmers against yield loss but also provide security for their income.
The Agriculture minister also said that Centre is examining the issue of rising premiums under the existing crop insurance programme, adding that “The issues of rising premium rates under existing crop insurance programme are being examined and we have to make efforts for bringing the premium rates at a reasonable level which could be affordable to the farmers.”
A Comprehensive Crop Insurance Scheme 'National Agricultural Insurance Scheme' (NAIS) was started from 1999-2000 but the scheme could not translate into actuarial regime as conceptualized, later National Crop Insurance Programme (NCIP) was introduced from 2013-14 with different components to compensate farmers differently by using different methodology for computing crop losses to farmers. Some of the states adopted the MNAIS (modified NAIS) and some states have expressed few reservations about its implementation. Hence, states have been allowed to implement MNAIS or NAIS on their choice.
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