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Posted on March 7th, 2021
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Philip Gunewardene,
who was very sympathetic towards the farmers, introduced a
Crop Insurance Scheme which benefited the farmers immensely. I am
not sure whether this insurance scheme is still operative, said Elmo de Silva
in 2020 .
Philip prepared a Crop Insurance Bill in 1958. It
was necessary to protect the farmer from crop failure, through crop insurance. This would be tried out first in two pilot
projects, one where risk is high and one where risk is low. The pilot projects will not be experimental
ones, they will be fact finding. At
present we do not compensate when there is loss of crops. We wait till they are