Investigators at Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Indian Institute of Rice Research Report Findings in Crop Insurance (Remote Sensing-based Transformative Crop Insurance for Rice): Agriculture – Crop Insurance

2022 OCT 19 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Agriculture Daily -- Data detailed on Agriculture - Crop Insurance have been presented. According to news reporting originating from Hyderabad, India, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “A robust crop insurance system is critical to limit the impact of multivariable risks and stimulate innovation and investment in the agricultural sectors. A genuine agricultural insurance claim is lacking in India due to unavailability of accurate data.”

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Indian Institute of Rice Research, “Manual data collection of cropped area, prevented sowing, failed sowing, and flood- and drought-affected areas is laborious, time-consuming, cost-intensive and often erroneous. The existing insurance procedure is not transparent, accurate and fast due to the aforesaid issues. We can overcome these problems using satellite-based remote sensing. An alternative measure of paddy crop performance through crop health factor index derived from synthetic aperture radar remote sensing data can be utilized in place of yield data in the existing area-yield insurance scheme.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Tamil Nadu and West Bengal have successfully implemented this technology, which can be applied across India to make crop insurance transparent, accurate and rapid.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Remote Sensing-based Transformative Crop Insurance for Rice. Current Science, 2022;123(3):254-255. Current Science can be contacted at: Indian Acad Sciences, C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, P B #8005, Bangalore 560 080, India.

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting S. Vijayakumar, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Indian Institute of Rice Research, Hyderabad 500030, India. Additional authors for this research include R. Mahender Kumar, R. M. Sundaram and P. Balasubramanian.

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