Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Wednesday, Oct 23, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Wednesday, Oct 23, 2002 |
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Agri-Biz & Commodities
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General Insurance Insurance cover for eight more crops Our Bureau
BANGALORE: Eight crops have been brought under the crop insurance scheme for the 2002-03 kharif season at the hobli level. Under the two-year-old National Agricultural Insurance Scheme, financial support will be provided to affected farmers of ragi, jowar, groundnut, maize, tur dal, paddy, sweet jowar and sunflower, according to the Agriculture Minister, Mr V.S. Koujalgi. The scheme already covers soya, cotton, potato, sugarcane, oilseeds, onion and black gram at the taluk level. In three years, the scheme will be extended to all crops at the village level, he added.
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