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Extend cut-off date for crop insurance, Agriculture Minister writes to Centre
Agriculture Minister MRK Panneerselvam on Friday urged the Centre to extend the cutoff date for enrolment of paddy-II under Prime Minister Fasal Bima Yojana (crop insurance scheme), which is presently fixed at November 15.
Chennai
“In view of the continuous holidays to common service centres and financial institutions, incessant rain throughout the state and difficulty of tenant farmers to get computerized land revenue document (Chitta) I (Panneerselvam) request the Government of India to extend the cut-off date for enrolment of paddy-II crop growing in 26 districts from November 15 to November 30,” he said in a DO letter written to Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar.
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