Breakaway Session: Agriculture Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana

Key Discussion Points

• Strategies to ensure wider coverage of farmers under crop insurance especially non-loanee farmers. user of technology for better implication of crop insurance schemes Designing crop insurance schemes.
• Designing crop insurance plans for small and marginal farmers to migrate the risk of crop damage, yield losses and price losses.
  

Panelist

Sh. Parshottam Rupala, Hon’ble Minister of State for Panchayati Raj, Agriculture and Farmers Welfare(Chair) (Moderator)

Sh. S. K. Pattanayak, Secretary, Department of Agriculture Cooperation & Farmers Welfare, Government of India (Moderator)

Sh. Debashish Panda, Additional Secretary, Department of Financial Services, Govt. of India

Prof. Bharat Ramaswami, Professor, Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute

Sh. Pramod Aggarwal, Program Leader, Climate Change, Agriculture & Food Security (CCAFS)

Sh. Harish Damodaran, Rural Affairs and Agriculture Editor, The Indian Express

Presentations by West Tripura and Beed (Maharashtra)