There are products in various categories such as health insurance, personal accident cover, crop insurance and insurance for equipment such as looms in case of weavers. NEW DELHI: MICRO insurance service providers need not lose heart: Budget 2007 may not have granted their wish, but the government is still examining exemption for micro insurance products from service tax. However, insurance companies that are large service providers cannot draw benefit from the exemption even for micro...

He also reminded farmers that the commonwealth is providing $3 million for the 2007 crop year so that producers can better afford crop insurance protection. Farmers need to contact their crop insurance agent now to purchase insurance for the 2007 crop year. Crop insurance provides a cushion in case of some type of crop interruption. The high prices of feed grains present greater financial impact when there is a yield or quality reductions or there are missed price opportunity when having...

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KOLKATA: Agriculture insurance, which has remained low key till now, is all set to gain prominence after the budget allocated Rs 100 crore towards weather insurance. It is a little early to comment on this, but as part of the overall crop insurance portfolio, the company may think of comprehensive or compact products relating to rural insurance. For example, there could be a total package of the farmers hut, tools, implements, animals that could be covered apart from the crop being insured...

Farmers trying to cash in on high corn prices rotated as much as 50 percent of their cotton acreage to corn this year, but the second drought in two years may keep them from seeing any significant gains. Another factor is farmer's insurance that sometimes only covers acreage that has been planted. Ford is taking advantage of a low-cost insurance program, called Group Risk Income Protection, designed to help farmers protect their crops from disastrous losses. If a significant amount of rain...

The planning is an annual rite of spring, but this year it has huge implications for farmers in a market driven by a boom in ethanol, the corn-based biofuel that has surged in popularity partly because of rising gasoline prices and partly because President Bush declared that the U. Some are signing futures contracts to lock in prices now; some are holding off in the hope that prices will climb higher. The planning is an annual rite of spring, but this year it has huge implications for...

Beans planted before May 1 have higher yield potential, but growers should be aware that crop insurance doesn't cover very early plantings, said Shawn conley, Purdue University soybean specialist. Last year, 53 percent of Indiana's acreage was planted to soybeans and with most farmers in a corn/soybean rotation, more acres were naturally going to shift to corn in 2007, Conley said. Indiana farmers will plant more acres to corn than soybeans this year, but the push for more corn for ethanol...

Some are signing futures contracts to lock in prices now; some are holding off in the hope that prices will climb higher. The planning is an annual rite of spring, but this year it has huge implications for farmers in a market driven by a boom in ethanol, the corn-based biofuel that has surged in popularity partly because of rising gasoline prices and partly because President Bush declared that the U. The planning is an annual rite of spring, but this year it has huge implications for...

In the roughly 10 years since biotech crops have become available, consumers have been buying food products without always being aware that GMO products might have been used in their production. The rice, now under development in Japan, is genetically modified, but GM technology is still viewed with deep suspicion by many consumers here, where no GMO crops are commercially grown despite increasing a growth in global acreage. She said it was likely to be a time-consuming process for the...