Archive · 14 Jun 2025
Tea Farmers to Get Crop Insurance Under Government Scheme
The Indian government is starting a new program to help tea farmers.
It's like a special insurance that helps them if bad weather ruins their tea crop.
This is good news for over 150,000 small tea farmers in several states, including Bengal, Assam, and Kerala.
A government official sent a letter explaining the new program.
The program, called RWBCIS, will help farmers get money to cover their losses from weather problems.
The government is asking the states for some information so the program can start helping the farmers.
The Indian government will include tea and other cash crops in a crop insurance scheme.
The scheme aims to compensate growers for losses from adverse weather conditions.
Over 1.5 lakh small tea growers in Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala will benefit.
The decision was communicated via a letter from the CEO of PMFBY.
The scheme is the Revised Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (RWBCIS).
- Who
- The central government and over 1.5 lakh small tea growers.
- What
- The central government is including tea and other cash crops in a crop insurance scheme.
- When
- The decision was communicated on June 10.
- Where
- The tea-producing states of Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala.
- Why
- To compensate growers for losses due to adverse weather conditions.
- Scheme Name
- Revised Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (RWBCIS)
- Beneficiaries
- Over 1.5 lakh small tea growers
- Included Crops
- Tea, coconut, palm, cardamom, and rubber
- States Involved
- Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala
- Initiating Body
- Central Government of India