Crop insurance
Covers against perils of weather such as:
- Drought
- Excess rains
- Hail damage
- Frost damage
- Fire
Why Crop Insurance
- Unpredictable weather
- Protection of loans taken from banks
- Removes uncertainty
- Improves financial planning
- Encourages investment
Classes of crop insurance
- Cereals-wheat, maize, barley
- Cash crops- tea, coffee
- Sugarcane
- Horticulture
- Floriculture
- Forest
- Greenhouse farming