Haryana launches crop insurance portal under ‘Mukhya Mantri Bagwani Bima Yojana’.

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• On 31 March 2022, The H aryana Agriculture Minister J P Dalal launched the portal of ‘Mukhya Mantri Bagwani Bima Yojana’ with an initial corpus of Rs 10 crore for the scheme. Under which the farmers will be compensated for the damage caused to their crops due to adverse weather and natural calamities.
• The scheme compensates a sum of Rs 30,000 per acre for vegetable and Spices and Rs 40,000 per acre for fruits, which will be compensated to the farmers upon claim via four categories such as 25 percent, 50 percent, 75 percent and 100 percent based on the survey.
• The farmers contribution will be only 2.5 percent of the insured amount i.e.Rs 750 per acre for vegetable and Spices and Rs 1000 per acre for fruits.
• The Scheme covers 21 crops – 14 vegetables (tomato, onion, potato, cauliflower, peas, carrot, okra, bottle gourd, bitter gourd, brinjal, green chilli, capsicum, cabbage, radish), 2 spices (turmeric, garlic) and 5 fruits (mango, kinnow, berry, guava, lychee).
• The scheme will be optional for all those farmers who will get registered under ‘Merl Fasal Mem Byora’ (a web portal through which the problems of the farmers of the state will be resolved).
• Monitoring of the scheme, review and resolution of disputes will be done through the state-level and district-level committees constituted under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana.