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Why Maharashtra farmers have grown cold to Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana
August 04, 2025 9:09 pm
Farmer enrolment in the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana crop insurance scheme has come down from last year’s 76.31 lakh to 31,39.15 lakh in Maharashtra.
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Bogus farm insurance claims: Maharashtra panel suggests 5-year ban from subsidies for misusing scheme
February 03, 2025 7:53 am
Recommends blacklisting CSC operators; officials say state can’t make changes without Centre nod.
Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana: Minister praises crop insurance scheme 3 yrs after state opted out of it
February 07, 2024 8:23 am
The 39-second video shows a farmer crying after being woken up by a nightmare about a storm damaging his crop with a caption showing ‘Before 2014’.
Centre’s crop insurance scheme finds more takers
January 13, 2024 8:42 pm
Insured non-loanee area accounted for 36 per cent of total insured area under PMFBY during 2022-23; highest in 5 years.
Rain gauge tampered with, fraudulent insurance claims: Deep rot in Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana comes to fore
October 17, 2023 2:35 pm
For the second consecutive year in a row, implementation of the PMFBY is rocked by attempts to tamper data or insure non-existing crops on the ground.
Highest number of farmers sign up for for Re-1 crop insurance this kharif
August 01, 2023 4:32 am
For kharif 2022, the state has recorded 96.62 lakh applications from 43.56 lakh farmers, against 84.07 lakh applications from 36.07 lakh farmers in 2021.
Odisha liable for delay in settling crop cover claims, says Tomar
November 18, 2022 2:30 am
This came after the Chief Minister’s Office recently stated that many affected farmers have not yet received their crop insurance dues despite the state government regularly following up with the Centre over the issue.
Despite surveys, Maharashtra farmers continue to wait for insurance claims for crop loss
November 03, 2022 10:43 am
Maharashtra has seen 96.61 lakh applications for insuring crops over 57.63 lakh hectares of farmland. Farmers in the state have paid Rs 656.02 crore as their share of the premium to insure their crops
Staring at looming drought, Jharkhand farmers ask: What will we grow and what will we eat?
August 12, 2022 8:28 am
According to senior state government officials, Chief Minister Hemant Soren raised the issue at the NITI Aayog meeting chaired by the Prime Minister last week. Jharkhand’s Agriculture Department has launched a statewide survey to “understand the depth of the drought” and the condition of farmers.
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PM Modi arrives in MP to unveil Crop Insurance Scheme
February 18, 2016 9:57 am
Sehore (MP), Feb 18 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, reached Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, on Thursday. PM Modi will unveil 'Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana'scheme at Kisan Kalyan Mela. He will also release the guidelines for this scheme. On the occasion, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was also present.
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