Har farmers getting compensation for low yield: CM

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today said farmers insured under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) were provided compensation for not only crop loss due to natural calamity but also for low yield.
He said after giving away cheques amounting to Rs 61,30,584 as compensation to 27 farmers from different districts for Kharif-2016 under the PMFBY here.
The chief minister said it was for the first time that farmers were also getting compensation for low yield.
The scheme has been implemented in the interest of the farmers, he said.
The Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister, Om Parkash Dhankar, said an amount of Rs 219.70 crore was to be disbursed as compensation for farmers in around 2,500 villages.

He said this compensation is in addition to the Rs 9.86 crore already disbursed among 3,593 farmers on the basis of local calamity.

This compensation has been fixed through crop-cutting experiments of claim crops by considering the average yield as the base, Dhankar said.
The minister said all insured farmers in villages which have registered low yield as compared to pre-determined production will be given compensation on the basis of their insured sown area.
The amount of compensation is being deposited directly into the bank accounts of farmers, he said.
Dhankar said the process is underway for carrying out insurance of Rabi 2016-17 crops, under which insurance of wheat, gram, mustard and barley crops has been done.

Under this, assessment of loss to be caused due to regional calamities such as hailstorm, water-logging and landslides has been done at the field-level, he said.
Dhankar said under this scheme, the farmers neither required to make rounds of offices nor have to pass through any process.
For Rabi crops, insurance of 5.75 lakh farmers has been done, he added.