There is some good news for drought-hit farmers in 136 taluks in the State.

Farmers who lost crops in the kharif season last year are all set to receive Rs. 694.12 crore crop insurance amount released by insurance companies.

President of the Gulbarga District Raitha Horata Samiti Kedarlingaiah Hiremath told presspersons here recently that farmers had paid Rs. 80.70 crore as insurance premium to insurance companies for kharif crops.

Biggest beneficiary

Mr. Hiremath said that Kalaburagi district, one of the worst-hit with farmers losing heavily, has been sanctioned the highest crop insurance compensation of Rs. 197.60 crore.

Haveri dist. second

Haveri district stood second in the State to get crop insurance of Rs. 123.50 crore for the kharif season.

In Kalaburagi, 1.14 lakh farmers who had insured their crops would benefit.

Jewargi tops in Kalaburagi

In Kalaburagi district, Jewargi taluk topped the list with a sanction of Rs. 74.93 crore crop insurance, followed by Aland with Rs. 48.55 crore, Kalaburagi taluk Rs. 37.55 crore, Chitapur taluk Rs. 20.72 crore, Chincholi taluk Rs. 8.15 crore and Afzalpur which has been sanctioned Rs. 7.60 crore.

There was no information available about the crop insurance sanctioned to Sedam taluk.

Other districts

The following are the details of crop insurance sanctioned to other districts: Dharwad Rs. 84.04 crore, Bidar Rs. 69.73 crore, Uttara Kannada Rs. 40.92 crore, Gadag Rs. 34.22 crore, Yadgir Rs. 33.23 crore, Belagavi Rs. 31.22 crore, Koppal Rs. 16.15 crore, Shivamogga Rs. 13.78 crore, Vijayapura Rs. 14.31 crore, Davangere Rs. 11.40 crore, Bagalkot Rs. 6.85 crore, Hassan Rs. 5.92 crore, Kolar Rs. 4.03 crore, Chitraduraga Rs. 2.49 crore, Tumakuru Rs. 17 lakh, Bengaluru Rural Rs. 14 lakh, Ballari Rs. 6 lakh, Mysuru Rs. 5 lakh and Bengaluru Urban Rs. 4 lakh.

The rest of the districts have been sanctioned less than Rs. 1 lakh crop insurance.

The figure pertaining to Raichur district was not available.

Source - http://www.thehindu.com