Crop Insurance Scheme only option, say hailstorm-hit fruit growers

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- JAHANGEER GANAIE

Followingrowers across the region a severe hailstorm thathave united in demanding the devastated orchards andimmediate implementation of farmlands across seva comprehensive crop insurance scheme, which they see as mir, fruit growers havehe only sustainable solution to condemned the meagreprotect their livelihoods from compensation providednatural calamities.

sayingitamountsto“rubMember of Legislative bing salt on their wounds"Assembly (MLA) Showkat Hussain Ganaie assured that losses, which run intdhe would raise the issue with crores. the Chief Minister. “I under-

Speaking to the newsstand the pain and losses faced agency, growers from Chiby our growers,” Ganaie said. tragam and surrounding’ will personally raise this areas in Shopian districtlemand with the CM. Impleexpressed their angermenting a crop insurance saying the relief of onlyscheme is no longer optional; a few thousand rupees isit’s essential.”