Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana will give a boost to productivity by ensuring irrigation facilities. The Vision is to ensure access to some means of protective Irrigation to all agricultural farms. Farmers are being educated about modern irrigation methods to give ‘Per Drop More Crop’.

Farmers have always been the back-bone of our country & the NDA Government is striving to strengthen this back-bone of the country through innovative and solid measures.

Support local farmers and farm initiatives - buy from them on-line but continue to use markets and local shops if they are still open. But bear with them as they are dealing with major changes and a huge level of demand that they may not be geared up for.

Agricultural research will be vital in increasing yields but also in increasing resilience to all the problems that could come with climate change – including extreme heat and precipitation, pests and crop disease. Research will be especially important for crops such as pulses and soybean, which are crucial crops and highly vulnerable to weather and climate change.

To compensate for the uncertainty caused by climate change, an effective crop insurance programme is required to protect farmers from bad yields. Many already pay into insurance programmes but they provide little protection. The system needs overhauling so that small farmers are protected by low premium and long-term insurance cover, instead of being designed, as it seems to be at the moment, purely for the profit of insurance companies.

In Kharif 2017, applications were received from 123 insured farmers out of 358 non-loanee farmers. In Rabi 2017, 92.1% of insured farmer applications were for non-loanee farmers, as compared to 70.8% in Rabi 2016

Information was uploaded timely regarding insured farmers on Crop Insurance Portal by various financial institutions. Geo-tagging and photo uploading during Crop Cutting experiment (CCE). Under electronic submission of CCE 63.2% of the target has been achieved for Kharif 2016 and 61.4% for Rabi 2016. Compensation was directly transferred into bank accounts of farmers.Convergence with other government schemes like National E-Governance Plan (NeGP) and Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) Scheme.

Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs) operated at Common Service Centers (CSCs) for increased participation of farmers. SHGs, Farmer’s Club spread awareness about the Programme. There were presence of both Village Level Workers (VLW) and Insurance Company representative during processing of application and assessment of crop damage.

Regular co-ordination and review meetings with all stakeholders is conducted along with intensive awareness campaigns by District Administration to incentivize newly insured farmers

The farmers’ queries are also handled with understanding and patience, giving them further assurance. The successful campaigning has brought nearly 29,659 more farmers into the ambit of PMFBY.