Agriculture · 2017-02-2017
A Crop Insurance Scheme Never Seen Before?
Fact-check: misleading
What was said
Modi presented the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana as a new kind of protection that could cover farmers when weather prevented sowing.
Uttar Pradesh election rally.
What the record says
A weather-based crop insurance scheme had already existed since the 2003 kharif season. The new scheme changed the framework and scale, but the underlying type of insurance was not unprecedented.
Coded targets
previous government
Primary verification
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