ABOUT THE BOOK

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    Accession Number

 B1687

    Title

 Agricultural Insurance: Role, Importance, Programme For Multiple Risks And Benefits

    Author

 Rai, Musafir

    Publisher

 Deep & Deep Publications Pvt Ltd

    ISBN

 81-7100-611-9

     Summary

This book makes a thorough enquiry into the viability of agricultural insurance in India and studies the effect of various factors affecting demand and supply of crop insurance. It analyses insurability under alternative conditions under the individual yield approach, which is used in most insurance programmes in the world, and the homogeneous area yield approach as used in India. Contents include: Crop Insurance and General Insurance; Agricultural Insurance Organisational Structure; Economic Frame-work; Agricultural Risk; Crop Insurance and Settlement of Claims; Agricultural Insurance in Russia, Japan, USA; Future Prospects and Problems; Suggestions; etc. This book will be of great use to all insurance companies, teachers and students of economics and agriculture and all other interested in the study of agricultural insurance.