Many farmers unaware of crop insurance, get no relief

  • | Tuesday | 27th June, 2017

TRICHY: Lack of awareness about crop insurance has robbed many distressed farmers of a golden opportunity to get some relief for their losses as the figures released by insurance companies show. Of them, we have planned to bring at least one lakh acres under crop insurance cover," he further said. "Despite the farmers facing severe drought for the last five years, no one came forward to be covered under crop insurance scheme. Even Ramanathapuram farmers have claimed 355 crore as crop insurance. However, lack of knowledge about the importance of remitting the required premium has restricted Trichy farmers from availing the benefit, the leaders opined.

TRICHY: Lack of awareness about crop insurance has robbed many distressed farmers of a golden opportunity to get some relief for their losses as the figures released by insurance companies show. While Tiruvarur district has claimed the lion's share of the money released, many Trichy farmers don't seem to have insured their crops at all.In all, the insurance companies have so far sanctioned 928.12 crore for disbursal of crop insurance claims to drought-hit farmers who lost their samba paddy crops during 2016-17. Of this, Tiruvarur district received 489 crore while the farmers in Trichy district have claimed only 20 crore.Farmers' organisations in the district admit that only a few farmers had reported having ever insured their crops. A majority of them were found to be unaware of the practice of insuring crops and that the facility was available for them or were not interested. Even Ramanathapuram farmers have claimed 355 crore as crop insurance. However, lack of knowledge about the importance of remitting the required premium has restricted Trichy farmers from availing the benefit, the leaders opined."Despite the farmers facing severe drought for the last five years, no one came forward to be covered under crop insurance scheme. In this distress period, had they remitted a meagre amount of 386 as crop insurance premium, they could have claimed at least 6,000", said Puliyur A Nagarajan , state organizer of the farmers' wing of Tamil Manila Congress wing to TOI. He said they will meet every farmer in person across the district as part of a campaign to motivate them to pay insurance premium, Nagarajan said."We hope that farmers can take up cultivation on 1.50 lakh acre in Trichy district. Of them, we have planned to bring at least one lakh acres under crop insurance cover," he further said. He also appealed to the state government and the district administration to expedite the disbursal of claims as soon as possible. They have submitted a memorandum in this regard to expedite the process, he added.

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