Poor response to crop insurance schemes despite increasing risks to crops from climate change
- The changing weather conditions are becoming a major challenge to the agriculture sector of the country While on one hand climate change is affecting the country's agriculture sector and crops are being damaged or production is falling, on the other hand the important Pradhan Mantri Crop Insurance Scheme to provide security to farmers by compensating them is weakening day by day. . Due to high temperature, wheat yield was affected this year, due to which the government was forced to impose regulations on wheat exports. Production of the current year's kharif season is estimated to be moderately low due to uneven rainfall. In the current sugar season of 2022-23, which started from October 1, domestic sugar production is reported to be seven percent lower. Lower sugarcane production is expected to result in lower sugar production. Unfavorable weather has affected sugarcane production in Maharashtra. Thus, when adverse weather conditions are affecting the production of various