Awareness about crop insurance should ease out farmers’ distress

Successive governments have launched crop insurance schemes for farmers but they have not been able to push the benefits among the farmers. Many state government have implemented the agriculture insurance schemes for farmers which have met with different degrees of success. In order to really benefit the farmers the governments will have to focus more on creating awareness among farmers through training about the benefit of the scheme at Krishi Vikas Kendra and rural NGOs. Provision should be made to improve the infrastructure of all rural banks with internet connectivity which will help farmers to enroll under the scheme. This will help government to achieve target penetration of crop insurance to 50 percent in three years.