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AGRICULTURE-CROP INSURANCE
National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS) was introduced in the state form Kharif 2000
season onwards with involvement of Agriculture Department, Agriculture Insurance Company.
(Implementing Agency) and Dirctorate of Economics and Statics.
Objectives
 To provides a measure of financial support to the farmers in the event of crop failure as a
result of drought, cyclone and incidence of pest & diseases etc.
 To restore the credit eligibility of a farmer after a crop failure for the next season .
 To encourage the farmers to adopt progressive farming practices, high value in-puts and
higher technology in Agriculture .
 To help stabilize from income, particularly in disaster years
Crop Insurance National Crop Insurance Programme (NCIP)
 The implementation of the NCIP with effective from Kharif 2014 in all the districts as
per the directions of GOI
 The NCIP comprising two components
1) Modified National Agriculture Insurance Scheme (MNAIS) .
PROMOTION OF ORGANIC FARMING UNDER RKVY (2015-16)RSS.IN CRORES
Component Amount proposed
Continuation of Area Expansion under certified Organic farming
in 4550 has by providing inputs, field assistance, 3rd party 3,1100
Certificate . Trade fairs, Training Exposure visits.
Establishment of Bio fertilizer production unit 0.3500
Promotion of community manage of Organic farming / Natural 38.0700
farming and climate resilient Agriculture
TOTAL 41,5300

2) Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (WBCIS)

 Crops notified under MNAIS under NCIP in the districts of the state during Kharif 2015.
MODIFIED NATIONAL AGIRCULTURAL INSURANCE SCHEME (MNAIS)
 The MNAIS was implemented in all the districts during Kharif 2014 and Rabi 2014-15.

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 Crops notified under MNAIS in all the districts of the state during Kharif 2015, Rice
(Village made as insurance unit), Bajra, Groundnut, Sugarcane, Maize, Redgram, Cotton,
Blackgram, Castor, Turmeric, Chilies, Sunflower, Jowar, Korra in same districts.

VILLAGE AS INSURANCE UNIT SCHEME

 One major crop in each district is selected under Village Insurance Unit.
 Lower size of unit is more representative in yield assessment for computation of crop
insurance claims

WEATHER BASED CROP INSURANCE SCHEME

 Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme aims to mitigrate the hardship of the insured
farmers due to the financial loss on account of anticipated crop loss resulting from
incidence of adverse deviations of weather parameters like rainfall, temperature, relative
humidity etc.

Farm Mechanization Benefits Subsidy Expenditure

(Rs. Lakhs)
Year Target Achievement Target Achievement
2013-14 84,990 54,190 15,54,063 7,209.02
2014-15 1,22,182 87,990 16,591.47 15,784.00
2015-16 1,53,401 75,667 15,963.25 11,663.32

PREMIUM SUBSIDY
 25% to 50% premium subsidy is allowed to all the farmers irrespectively of their
category
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE (NAIS)
 The NAIS is implemented for selected crops in all districts during Rabi 2015-16 (Rice,
Groundnut, Maize, Redgram, Bengalgram, Onion, Jowar, Greengram, Chillies,
Sunflower, Castor).

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 Under implementation of different crop insurance programmes, Andhra Pradesh, state

stands in No.1 position interms of coverage of farmers, coverage of area, claims paid and
farmers benefited for the last 4 years .
 During the year 2012-13, claims for Rs.916.57 crores benefiting 9.2 lakh farmers .
 During the year 2013-14 claims for Rs.647.33 crores benefiting 8.48 lakh farmers .
 During Kharif 2014, claims for Rs.71.95 crores benefiting to 1.04 lakh farmers were
settled in the state

Land Reforms in India and AP

Land is precious for any country and used by people for productivity and as a source of food, for
place to live, for wood, for place to work. In India, before colonial rule the land used to be in the
hands of the community as a whole. However during the British Raj, this was changed.
Lord Carnwallies had introduced Permanent Land Settlement for Bengal, Bihar and Orissa in
1793. According to this the tax farmers appointed by the British rulers was converted as various
Land Lords. Under this rule they had to pay fixed commission to East India Company. Thus
these intermediaries were formed and called as Jagirdar / zamindar.
Emergence of Tenants: Following the Land Settlement Act, 1793, the farmers purchase lands
from the Land Lords and hire it for their agricultural use. These people who hired the land were
called tenants.
Variations in Tenency:
Cash Tenents: They pay a fixed tax for the use and occupy of the land.
Share - cash Tenants: They pay part of their rent in cash and other part as share of the crop.
Crop - share Tenants: They pay a share of crops only.
Croppers: They pay crop of the share. But they were not independent and work under the
landlord.
Other unspecified tenants:
Land Lord – Tenant Relationships
Land lord – Tenant
Landlord – Agricultural Labour
Land reforms: In India, there was a practice of land holdings from historic times and it was
distributed in a highly unequal manner and have always been used as a source of social power.
To get secure access to land for the poor and landless, policies of land reform were implemented
to benefit poorer section of society since independence. After that a number of land reforms have
been done by the government such as abolition of 'Zamindari' or middlemen as revenue

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collectors, imposing ceiling on landholdings and awarding of the surplus land's rights to landless,
and tenancy reforms (Mearns, 1998). Land reform is described as redistribution of land from the
rich to the poor. More broadly, it comprises of regulation of ownership, operation, leasing, sales,
and inheritance of land (indeed, the redistribution of land itself requires legal changes). In an
agricultural economy such as India with great dearth, and an unequal distribution, of land,
coupled with a large mass of the rural population below the poverty line, there are enthralling
financial and political opinions for land reform. Purpose of land reforms is efficient use of scarce
land resource, redistributing agricultural land in favour of the less privileged class in general &
cultivating class in particular.
Historical review of Land Reforms in India: Land program in post-Independence India has
evolved through different phases. During the Mughal period, before the arrival of the British
there were numerous changes in the system of land taxation or revenue. Peasants continued to
enjoy customary rights over land they occupied and generally could not be evicted unless they
failed to pay the required land revenue (land tax) to the state. The task of collecting land revenue
was assigned to a class of agents called zamindars (Bhaumik, 1993).
When the East India Company (EIC) established in the Seventeenth Century, the agricultural
structure underwent fundamental change. The EIC first purchased the right to receive the
collected land revenue and later, under the Permanent Settlement introduced in 1793, declared
the Zamindars to be proprietors of land in exchange for the payment of land revenue fixed in
perpetuity. Zamindars, or those to whom they sold their proprietary rights, typically delegated
revenue collection to a series of middlemen. The increasing layers of intermediaries meant that
there was considerable increase in rent extracted from the tillers and failure to pay this increased
amount resulted in large-scale evictions, widespread disturbance, and declining agricultural
production (Bhaumik, 1993). The British sought to stabilize the situation through legislated
tenancy reform.
The Bengal Rent Act of 1859 placed restrictions on the power of landlords' to increase rent or
evict tenants. However, the Act only protected fixed-rent tenants and did not protect bargadars or
agricultural labourers. But it only protected those fixed-rent tenants who could prove they had
cultivated the land for 12 consecutive years. Constant cultivation was difficult to prove due to
poor records and the Act resulted in an increase in evictions by Zamindars to prevent tenants
from possessing land for the required time period (Bhaumik, 1993). The 1885 Bengal Tenancy
Act also sought to protect long-standing tenants, and was similarly ineffective. During this
period, another form of landholder emerged in Bengal. The Jotedars were a rich class of peasants
who reclaimed and gained control of large quantities of uncultivated forests and wetlands outside
the territory governed by the Permanent Settlement (Bhaumik, 1993). The Jotedars refined some
of this land through the direct supervision of hired labour or servants. Nevertheless, the bulk of
the Jotedars' land, like much of the land in Bengal, was cultivated by Bargadars.
Rural tensions over the dilemma of Bargadars were common in the decades prior to and after
Independence. In the 1940s, the Tebhaga movement called for a smaller crop share payment and
also created the slogan, "He who tills the land, owns the land." The movement is given credit for
shaping post-Independence land reform legislation in West Bengal (Datta, 1988). At the time of
Independence, this matter was of great significance. In the decades following independence India
passed a significant body of land reform legislation. The 1949 Constitution left the adoption and
implementation of land and tenancy reforms to state governments. This led to a lot of
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dissimilarity in the implementation of these reforms across states and over time. After India
Independence, the government took major step to eradicate the systems of Jamindaris and
Jagirdari, to remove intermediaries between state and peasant. This was the first legislature taken
by almost all the states called as Abolition of Jamindari / Jagirdari systems Act.
The main objectives of the Land Reforms: These are as follows:

1. To make redistribution of Land to make a socialistic pattern of society. Such an effort

will reduce the inequalities in ownership of land.
2. To ensure land ceiling and take away the surplus land to be distributed among the small
and marginal farmers.
3. To legitimize tenancy with the ceiling limit.
4. To register all the tenancy with the village Panchayats.
5. To establish relation between tenancy and ceiling.
6. To remove rural poverty.
7. Proliferating socialist development to lessen social inequality
8. Empowerment of women in the traditionally male driven society.
9. To increase productivity of agriculture.
10. To see that everyone can have a right on a piece of land.
11. Protection of tribal by not allowing outsiders to take their land.

Land reform legislation in India is categorized in to four main sections that include abolition of
intermediaries who were rent collectors under the pre-Independence land revenue system,
tenancy regulation that attempts to improve the contractual terms faced by tenants, including
crop shares and security of tenure, a ceiling on landholdings with a view to redistributing surplus
land to the landless and lastly, attempts to consolidate disparate landholdings.
Abolition of intermediaries is generally established to be effective land reforms that has been
relatively successful. The record in terms of the other components is mixed and varies across
states and over time. Landowners naturally resisted the implementation of these reforms by
directly using their political influence and also by using various methods of evasion and
coercion, which included registering their own land under names of different relatives to bypass
the ceiling, and shuffling tenants around different plots of land, so that they would not acquire
incumbency rights as stipulated in the tenancy law. The success of land reform was driven by the
political will of particular state administrations, the prominent achievers being the left-wing
administrations in Kerala and West Bengal.

Tenancy Systems: At the time of independence, there existed many types of proprietary land
tenures in the country.
1. Ryotwari: It was started in Madras since 1772 and was later extended to other states. Under
this system, the responsibility of paying land revenue to the Government was of the cultivator
himself and there was no intermediary between him and the state. The Ryot had full right
regarding sale, transfer and leasing of land and could not be evicted from the land as long as he
pays the land revenue. But the settlement of land revenue under Ryotwari system was done on
temporary basis and was periodic after 20, 30 or 40 years. It was extended to Bombay
Presidency. In In Andhra it was introduced in 1807.
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2. Mahalwari: This system was initiated by William Bentinck in Agra and Oudh and was later
extended to Madhya Pradesh and Punjab. Under this system, the village communities held the
village lands commonly and it was joint responsibility of these communities to make payments
of the land revenue. The land ownership is held as joint ownership with the village body. The
land can be cultivated by tenants who can pay cash / kind / share.
3. zamindari: Lord Cornwallis gave birth to Zamindari system in India. He introduced this
system for the first time in 1793 in West Bengal and was later adopted in other states as well. In
Andhra it was introduced in 1802. Under this system, the land was held by a person who was
responsible for the payment of land revenue. They could obtain the land mostly free of charge
from the government during the British rule and it is called estate. Landlords never cultivated the
land they owned and rented them out to the cultivators. The amount of land revenue may either
be fixed once one for all when it was called permanent settlement or settlement with regard to
land revenue may only be temporary and may, therefore, be revised after every 30-40 years, as
the practice may be. The Zamindari system is known as absentee landlordism. Under this system
the whole village was under one landlord. The persons interested can work in the Jamindar's land
as tenant / labourer based on the agreement with the zamindar. The zamindari system was known
to be more exploitive, as the zaminder used to fix / hike the prices of land according to his desire.
Jagirdari: It is similar to Jamindari system. The jagirdar is powered to control the unproductive
masses of village by engaging them in agricultural activities. Because land is controlled by state
in India and the relationship between production and land tenure varies from state to state, the
national policy recommendations resulted in differing tenancy reform laws in each state.
Tenancy is completely banned in some states but completely free in others. Punjab and Haryana
have not forbidden tenancy whereas Karnataka has a near complete ban on tenancy. Some states
have discussed ownership rights on tenant cultivators except for sharecroppers, whereas West
Bengal chose to provide owner-like rights only to the sharecroppers. Tenancy reforms may have
indirect effects in the form of reduced tenancy shares if poorly implemented. Most tenancy
reform laws also contained provisions concerning the ability of tenants to surrender the land back
to the landlord voluntarily. These provisions were used by landlords to wane the impact of the
laws. In most states the surrender of land falls under the jurisdiction of the revenue authorities.
Outcomes of Land Reforms:

1. Abolition of zamindars and Jagirdar/Inamdars:

The powerful zamindars and Jagirdars have become inexistent.
The abolition of intermediaries has stopped exploitation.
Transfer of land to peasants from intermediaries has reduced disparities.
The new proprietorship has given scope for innovation in Land Reforms.
The ex-jagirdars and ex-zamindars have engaged themselves actively in other work thus
contributing for National Growth.
The abolishment of these systems has increased to the new land owners thus adding
revenue to the state governments.

In 1938, prakasam committee recommended the removal of zamindars and Inamdars. On

19-april-1949 removal of middlemen ( zamindars and Inamdars) bill passed in madras
assembly and it is effective from 1950.

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2. Land Ceiling:
Land is a source of Income in rural India land and it provides employment opportunities.
Therefore it is important for the marginal farmers, agricultural labourers, and small
farmers. The concept 'ceiling on land holdings' denotes to the legally stipulated maximum
size beyond which no individual farmer or farm household can hold any land. The
objective of such ceiling is to promote economic growth with social justice.
Land Ceiling should be imposed on all kinds of lands such as Fallow, Uncultivable,
irrigated and Cultivable land. All the mentioned are inclusive of ceiling Act. The ceiling
act varies from state to state on ceiling on two crops a year land. However in most of the
places the ceiling is 18 Acres.

In AP, two land ceiling acts were passed. (i) Land ceiling act-1961. It was a failure act.
(ii) Land ceiling act-1973. It was effective from 1-jan-1975. It was a successful act

3. Tenancy reforms: in 1955, lakka raju subbarao committee was appointed on land reforms.
On the basis of the recommendations of this committee, AP tenancy act -1956 was
implemented in AP. According to this act, rent ceiling is in between 28% to 50% and
land tenure security is 6 years. It means that the tenant farmer should not removed before
6 years.

Land possession and social power: It is observed that the land is not only the source of
production but also for generating power in the community. In the Indian system, the land
is often transferred from one generation to another generation. However all this lack the
documentation of possession of land. In this framework, the government had made it
mandatory to register all tenancy arrangements.

To summarize, Land reform is the major step of government to assist people living under
adverse conditions. It is basically redistribution of land from those who have excess of
land to those who do not possess with the objective of increasing the income and
bargaining power of the rural poor. The purpose of land reform is to help weaker section
of society and do justice in land distribution. Government land policies are implemented
to make more rational use of the scarce land resources by affecting conditions of
holdings, imposing ceilings and grounds on holdings so that cultivation can be done in
the most economical manner.
LAND DISTRIBUTION IS UNITE ANDHRA PRADESH
 The land was distributed to the landless people in the state, particularly schedule caste
and schedule tribe
 It was distributed under seven phases till 2014.
 The land patta was given under the name of woman in the family
PHASE –I (Jan 26,2005)
 It was started at kondagal in Mahaboobnagar districts of United Andhra Pradesh .
 1,26,000 acres of land was distributed under this phase .
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 1,12,290 landless people were benefited

 Nellore District got the huge benefit under the phase-I
 Hyderabad district excluded from this phase-I
PHASE-II (August21-23, 2005)
 It was started in Boyathalu village of Medak district of United Andhra Pradesh.
 1,69,000 Acres of land was distributed to 1,06,770 landless people under this phase .
PHASE –III (November 19, 2006)
 It was started in Nallamada, Anantapur district of A.P.
 1,12,000 Acres of land was distributed to 73,550 landless people
PHASE –IV (January 19-25, 2008)
 It was stated in Tirupati, Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh .
 1,67,000 Acres of land was distributed to 1,19,038 landless people in the state.
 The land patta was given under the name of women.
 Indira Prabha, programme was launched for the development of land, with capital of 500
crores

PHASE-V (April14, 2010)

 It was started shadnagar of Mahaboobnagar district of united Andhra Pradesh .
 1.06,000 acres of land was distributed to 69,506 land less people in the sate
PHASE –VI (3-nov-2012)
 It was started in puttaparti, Ananthapur district of Andhra Pradesh .
 83,000 acres of surplus land was distributed to 57,000 people.
PHASE –VII (5-jan-2014)
 It was started in Hyderabad district of United Andhra Pradesh
 1,24,000 acres of surplus land was distributed to 79,063 people.

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