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Punjab to finally join Centre's crop insurance scheme
Mint Bangalore
|April 23, 2025
Huge losses suffered by farmers due to bad weather, farm fires led to this decision
Punjab, one of the country's main farming states, will finally join the Union government's crop insurance scheme after holding out for nine years.
Punjab's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government is set to formally request for the Union government to roll out the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) in the agrarian state, said the state's agriculture minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian in a telephone interview.
The reason it has agreed to implement the scheme is the huge losses suffered by farmers due to bad weather and farm fires.
This story is from the April 23, 2025 edition of Mint Bangalore.
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