| Agriculture Risk, Insurance and Income: A Study of the Impact and Design of India's Comprehensive Crop Insurance Scheme |  | Author: Pramrod K. Mishra
Publisher: Avebury
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Pages: 346
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Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 6.2 x 1.4
ISBN: 1859720609
Dewey Decimal Number: 630
EAN: 9781859720608
ASIN: 1859720609
Publication Date: January 1997
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Agricultural risk can have implications for both efficiency and welfare. Risk management interventions are quite often undertaken by governments because agriculture plays a critical role in the economies of many developing countries. This study is about one such risk-related intervention - crop insurance - in the context of a developing country. A view which has been gaining ground in recent times, especially since the 1980s - and has become a part of conventional wisdom - is that crop insurance, as a policy instrument for risk management, is not workable, and that it may not even be justified theoretically. This study reconsiders this question. India introduced an area-yield crop insurance scheme, known as the Comprehensive Crop Insurance Scheme (CCIS), in 1985. In an area-yield insurance scheme both premium and indemnity are based on the average crop yield of a specified geographical area rather than on farm-level yield. This study analyzes, from a global perspective, the above question focusing on the financial and economic performance of the CCIS.
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