Providing insurance coverage to farmers

Agricultural production in U.S Nagar involves several risks partly due to uncertain weather. NAIS is vital mechanism for providing insurance coverage to farmers and safe guards against production risk. Against this backdrop the present study has examined are performance of NAIS operating in Raisen district of U.S Nagar and some suggestion are given to make it more effective.

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A primary justification for government intervention has been the failure of private agricultural insurance markets (see, for example, Appel, Lord, and Harrington, 1999; Hazell, Pomerada, and Valdez, 1986; Goodwin and Smith, 1995). In a 1922 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) bulletin, Valgren describes the disastrous experiences of fire insurance companies that offered crop insurance in the Dakotas and Montana in 1917 and the early 1920s. Severe droughts caused widespread crop losses in those states.

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