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The feasibility of picture-based insurance (PBI) : smartphone pictures for affordable crop insurance
Ceballos, Francisco; Kramer, Berber; Robles, Miguel - In: Development engineering 4 (2019), pp. 2-14
Smallholder farmers are increasingly exposed to weather extremes but lack access to affordable insurance products for catastrophic crop damage. This paper analyzes the feasibility of Picture-Based Insurance (PBI) as a low-cost tool to improve coverage. PBI verifies insurance claims using...
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Rainfall Indexation for Evaluating Rainfall Risk Profile of Indian Subcontinent
V, Dr. Bharath; Kotreshwar, G. - 2021
This paper introduced a new set of rainfall indices which can be used as building blocks for designing rainfall derivatives contracts. Such a set was defined as deficit rainy days (DRD)/ excess rainy days (ERD) indices and computed for selected meteorological sub-divisions of India. The study...
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Crop Insurance in India : A Review of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY)
Tiwari, Rajesh; Chand, Khem; Anjum, Bimal - 2021
Farmers in India have been the victim of systemic neglect and live a marginalized life. Crop failure due to natural calamities and unfavourable climatic conditions puts farmers in a challenging situation leading to extreme hopelessness and suicides. This article provides an overview of the crop...
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Basis risk and the demand for catastrophic rainfall insurance
Negi, Digvijay S.; Ramaswami, Bharat - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 4 (2024) 1, pp. 1-24
Rainfall is an important source of covariate shock in developing countries. Insurance against a rainfall index has, therefore, held much promise as a formal insurance product to protect the livelihoods of poor farmers. But how good is rainfall as a measure of covariate shocks? The imperfect...
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Evaluating Rainfall Risk Profile of Indian Subcontinent Based on Index Metrics
V, Bharath - 2020
Floods and droughts represent an embedded monsoon factor impacting the Indian economy. Evaluating monsoon risk based on rainfall index metrics could help design appropriate alternative risk transfer products. This study proposes a new set of rainfall indices that can be used to explore the...
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Agricultural financing to guarantee food safety in an emerging nation : a case study of Nigeria
Omodero, Cordelia Onyinyechi; Ehikioya, Benjamin - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 23 (2022) 1, pp. 53-59
Investment in agriculture is very crucial in the present situation of Nigeria. The effort to overcome food insecurity …, the right step to take is to adequately finance agriculture in order to ensure sufficient food production and safety that … will save the future of the country. This study emphasizes on investment in agriculture to guarantee food security in …
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Credit policy for agriculture in India : an evaluation ; supporting Indian farms the smart way ; rationalising subsidies and investments for faster, inclusive and sustainable growt...
Hoda, Anwarul; Terway, Prerna - 2015
to answer the question, "Is the agenda of expansion of institutional finance to agriculture unfinished?" The findings in … institutional sources in 2012-13 covered 100 per cent of the input cost in agriculture in that year according to the National …
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Improving credit access for the food and agriculture sector through enhanced implementation of existing policies and new strategies
Teves, Gary B. - 2014
For several decades, the government has sought to develop the agriculture sector through programs like agrarian reform … with policy reforms and new strategies to fast-track the development of the food and agriculture sector to make economic …
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Changing Composition of Private Investment in Indian Agriculture and Its Relationship With Public Investment and Input Subsidies
Kumar, Anjani - 2020
assess its relationship with public investment in agriculture. Amidst sizeable ups and downs, the magnitude and rate of … growth in private investment in agriculture has gained momentum from 2000s except in Odisha, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and … formation in farm business, is evident in agriculturally advanced states. Within agriculture, relatively higher investments in …
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Linkages and Effects of Exogenous Shocks on Resource Productivity and Private Fixed Capital Investment in Indian Agriculture
Pandey, Lalmani - 2016
productivity, and improved private investment in agriculture. The effects of external shocks transmitted dynamically through … private investment to agriculture terms of trade is strong and has in turn a positive effect on aggregate agricultural output … critical for enhanced private fixed capital investment and sustained long term aggregate productivity growth of agriculture …
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