Bangla Fasal Bima Yojana – Extended upto January, 2019
The primary objective of the scheme is to provide facilities of enrolment for crop insurance to left out non-loanee farmers who could not enroll themselves on voluntary basis.
Government would pay the farmers’ premium for crop insurance. Only for the commercial crops of potato and sugarcane farmers have to bear a part of the premium – maximum of 4.85%.