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Working paper
Crop Insurance and Risk Mitigation: Experiences from India
(kassel university press, 2016)
Crop losses due to various reasons, particularly because of extreme weather situations, is a common phenomenon in agriculture and can prove to be catastrophic in the numerous rain fed fields of backward regions. It is against this backdrop that the development of sustainable mitigation strategies, one of them being crop insurance, comes into picture. It is worth noting in this context that agriculture insurance is under developed in developing countries and a World Bank study (2010) reveals that many state sponsored ...