Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal on Thursday said that farmers insured under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) were provided compensation for not only crop loss due to natural calamity, but also for low yield. Manohar lal was addressing the farmers after giving away cheques amounting to Rs 61,30,584 as compensation to 27 farmers of different districts of the State for Kharif-2016 under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana here. The Chief Minister said that it was for the first time that the farmers were also getting compensation for low yield. The scheme has been implemented in the interest of the farmers, he added. Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister, Om Parkash Dhankar informed that an amount of Rs 219.70 crore was to be disbursed as compensation in about 2,500 villages of the State. He said that this compensation is in addition to the Rs 9.86 crore already disbursed among 3,593 farmers on the basis of local calamity. This compensation has been fixed through crop-cutting experiments of claim crops by considering the average yield as base.