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Rains, tomato crisis: Will farmers be better off buying private insurance?

Farmers are not getting enough protection as states mostly do not pay the premium they should

Farmers, Agriculture, sowing
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Farmers, Agriculture, sowing

Subhomoy Bhattacharjee
With the rains falling in abundance and tomatoes refusing to do so, agriculture economy experts have a lot to say on what both mean for the sector.
 
Both pose a risk to farmers — of floods and of lack of pricing power. Yet the farmers don't have much to fend those off since agricultural insurance as a protection from rain and tomato assault often does not make sense for them.
 
As this article by Sanjeeb Mukherjee in Business Standard shows, the cover is not happening because mostly states do not pay the premium they should on behalf

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