Government vs Weather The True Story of Crop Insurance in India

Jennifer Ifft

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Abstract: The government of India started offering widespread crop in insurance in 1985, with the Comprehensive Crop Insurance Scheme. The CCIS has been replaced by the National Agriculture Insurance Scheme. The NAIS is considered to be an improvement over the CCIS, but it has simply replaced one flawed scheme with another slightly less flawed one. Government crop insurance has proved to be a failure worldwide, but India seems to have ignored both its own failure and the failure of other countries. [CCS WP no. 0010].

Keywords: countries; weather; insurance; infrastructure; financially sustainable; farmers; India; crop insurance; national agriculture; insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-11
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