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Sumanth Garakarajula
Sreedhar Bandaru
Uncertain weather
Unscientific practices of farming
Access to Markets and
Low Market price and High cost of production
Becoming
Suicidal
The answer ?
Risk Management
Farmer Risks:
Yield
Drought
Flood
Rainfall
Price fluctuation
Hail etc.,
No Actuarial Data
Unscientific Farm practices
Micro-Spatial Weather Data
The Solution
Raithu Jagruthi Project address all the issues that are hindering crop
insurance for farmers
The Solution
Agri-Advisory Division
Scientific Experts advising
farmers
Monitor
IT Division keeps all
data
Document
Collect Data
Deliver advises
Farmer
Insurance
Company
Underwriter access
the data for the
indemnity
Raitu Jagruthi
Recruits
Farmers and
enrolls for
insurance.
Farmer Data
Service
Division
Seed/Pesticide/Fertilizer Sellers
(farmers choice) are
approved by Raitu Jagruthi to
eliminate the possibility of
spurious seeds and pesticides
Farmer
What is the that Indian farmers lack and the Developed country Farmers
have?
In developed countries:
Farmer follow best crop practices
Insurance companies have the individual farmers historical actuarial Data
Micro weather data
No fraud, moral hazard and information problems associates with farmers.
Benefits
Safety net for farmers and their Families
Stable income for farmers
Farmers learn best practices
Project Outline
Duration of the Project: 3 years
Location of implantation : 10 mandals or 250 villages in Nizamabad
Parliamentary Constituency
Target Group and No. of Beneficiaries: All sizes of farmers. About 80,000 Farmer
families
Budget Estimate: 35 Crores for three years.
Employment generation: about 1000 local jobs.
Deliverables:
A well tested individual historical data of farmers for the actuarial use.
A well tested IT-enabled system to resolve location-specific crop husbandry problems
of all crops in a periodic manner throughout the year and reachable to all farmers.
A well tested scalable system.
A robust system which is ready to replicate.
A model for state-level extension system using ICTs
A framework to capture location-specific content.
A data set of individual farmers farm related practices, crop problems and advisories.