Apple farmers of Uttarakhand will soon get the benefit of crop insurance, payments will be made soon

Dehradun, 09 October (HS). Due to the tireless efforts of Agriculture Minister Ganesh Joshi, the insurance of apple crops of farmers in the month of December-January (2023-24) was canceled on behalf of the farmers last month under the Pradhan Mantri Crop Insurance Scheme. Now soon the Agriculture Department and the Insurance Company will start providing the insurance to the farmers. Will be benefited.

Officials of SBI Agriculture General Insurance said this during their meeting with Agriculture Minister Ganesh Joshi at the camp office on Wednesday. Officials of SBI General Insurance Company informed the Agriculture Minister that farmers were not able to benefit due to technical errors in the documents. He told that Agriculture Minister Ganesh Joshi had written a letter to Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan requesting to reopen the government portal, so that the apple crop can be insured again. Officials of the insurance company said that after the letter, the insurance company letter has been received by the Government of India and the Government of India has given instructions to take immediate action for the payment of crop insurance to the farmers.

Agriculture Minister Ganesh Joshi also expressed his gratitude to Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan. He said that produce is the soul of the farmer. He instructed the officials of the insurance company to work keeping in mind the interest of the farmers. Joshi said that those farmers who could not benefit due to technical errors in the documents will soon be benefited under the scheme. During this, keeping in view the interests of farmers, disaster risk transfer parametric insurance solution in the state was also discussed in detail like in Nagaland.

Let us tell you that the farmers of Naugaon, Purola and Mori blocks of Uttarkashi and Naintal had raised this issue by meeting Agriculture Minister Ganesh Joshi a few months ago. He had said that under the Prime Minister Crop Insurance Scheme, the apple crop was insured in December-January 2023-24, but now the insurance company is canceling his insurance. Last month, the Agriculture Minister had directed the officials of the insurance company to solve the problem. During this, Chief Business Officer Rakesh Kol, National Head Piyush Kumar Singh, State Manager Rupak Bisht, Regional Manager Parmanand Sharma etc. were present.