A national conference on crop insurance is being held at Bhopal on June 15-16 for empowering farmers by augmented crop risk management through concerted efforts. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will be chief guest of the conference where eminent agriculture scientists of country and abroad will hold discussions. Chouhan and Agriculture Minister Gaurishankar Bisen will speak on the first day June 15. Chief Secretary Anthony DeSa will introduce the subject.
Union Additional Secretary Agriculture AK Shrivastava will give opening remarks in the first session. Madhya Pradesh’s Principal Secretary Agriculture Rajesh Rajora will throw light on strategy regarding issues of existing crop insurance schemes. Vinay Sahastrabuddhe, Director General of Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini, Mumbai will deliver lecture on ‘Securing the Future of Farmers: Insurance and Beyond’, Ashok Vishandas, Chairman, Commission for Agriculture Costs and Prices on ‘Designing of Crop Insurance Plans for Small and Marginal Farmers to Mitigate the Risk of Yield losses and Price losses’, Ramesh Chand and SS Raju, Director and Principal Scientist of National Centre for Agriculture Economics and Policy Research, respectively on ‘Identification of the Most Vulnerable Crops, Farmers Groups and Special Products to Meet Their Requirements’ and Prof David Dror will discuss ‘Can We Design Better Micro Insurance for Marginal Farmers’.
In the second session, Ashok Vishandas, Chairman, Commission for Agriculture Costs and Prices will give opening remarks. Joshua Madson, Senior Catastrophe Modeler, Aon Benfield, Chicago will discuss ‘Crop Insurance Plans, the Best Practices in Crop Insurance and Crop loss Estimation Mehods in USA and Canada’, Miguel Fusco, Agriculture Risk Coordinator, School of Economics, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina on ‘Crop Insurance Plans, the Best Practices in Crop Insurance and Crop loss Estimation Mehods in American Countries’, Christopher Coe, Head of Agriculture, Asia Pacific at Aon Benfield, Singapore on ‘Overall Perspective of Crop Insurance – Objectives, Structure and Functions of Government in Crop Insurance Programmes – Experience from Asian Countries, leif Heimfahart, Underwriter, Agriculture Risks, Hannover Re, Germany on ‘Agriculture Insurance Systems – Reflection from Europe and Israel – Practical for IndiaIJ’, and Harini Kannan, Head, Agriculture, South West Asia at Swiss Re on ‘Scope for Specific Crop Insurance Schemes for Small/Marginal Farmers at Individual level – Perspectives and Experience from Asian Countries’.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will preside over the concluding function. Union Agriculture Minister Radhe Mohan Singh will be the chief guest.