ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has emphasized the need for a farmer-friendly crop insurance system to protect farmers from crop failure and losses due to manmade or natural calamities.
He was chairing a meeting on crop insurance here in Islamabad on Monday. Senator Sania Nishtar, Punjab Agriculture Minister Syed Hussain Jahania Gardezi, Federal Insurance Ombudsman Dr Khawar Jameel and senior officials of insurance companies attended the meeting.
The President said comprehensive measures should be adopted to prevent the adverse impacts of climate change on agriculture. He urged the insurance companies to focus on those farmers in Pakistan who have land holdings of 12.5 acres or less while introducing their insurance products.
The President appreciated the Government of Punjab for launching the Punjab Crop Insurance Program to provide yield loss protection to the farmers in case of crop failure and crop losses due to calamities and disasters. The meeting was told that a total of 1.48 million farmers of 27 districts of Punjab were insured against crop failure through a World Bank loan-based pilot program.
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