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| Double cropping improves but response to crop insurance poor | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 27 :-
While farmers have started showing interest in going in for double cropping in Jammu and Kashmir their interest in accepting the crop insurance scheme that had been introduced in the state about two years ago.
Traditionally Jammu and Kashmir has been practicing mono-cropping but in a bid to ensure increase in food production the Minister for Agriculture, G.H.Mir, set the stage for double cropping. When he saw that the response to it to the crop insurance was not encouraging he galvanised the Departmental experts for organizing seminar so that farmers were told about the benefits other two schemes.
G H Mir today admitted that farmers response to the crop insurance was not encouraging. He said farmers have been told to accept crop insurance since "our crops banked other vagaries of weather."
He explained that invariably crops get damaged either owing to drought in the Jammu region or on account of snow, hail and rain in the Kashmir valley.
In reply to a question Mir said that the Government was ready to subsidize annual premium the farmers were supposed to pay to the insurance company after they brought their crops under the cover of insurance.
He said that in Jammu and Kashmir farmers have been slow in responding to new schemes and technologies. In support of his contention he said that farmers had not quickly responded to new seeds and new farm implements. He said the farmers' mindset has undergone a sea change and they are quick in accepting new techniques.
Mir said that farmers in Jammu and Kashmir are under an illusion that whenever their crops suffer even minor damage they are given compensation from the Government which was not a fact. In certain cases farmers whose crops have suffered less than 40 per cent damage are given some cash relief.
About double cropping Mir said, “In the Jammu region more areas have been brought under double cropping but in the Kashmir valley progress in this respect has been slow and that too because of weather related problems.
He said he has asked officials and experts to tour villages in the state and explain the advantages of double cropping to farmers.
Also, the two universities of agricultural sciences have been asked to develop better varieties of seeds of rice, wheat, maize and vegetables so that under double cropping to be followed by triple cropping practices, food grain production registered marked increase.
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