India, July 24 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
Weather Information Network and Data System (WINDS) is an initiative of Government aimed at developing a national level network of Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) and Automatic Rain Gauges (ARGs) for generation of long term hyperlocal weather data for crop insurance, agriculture advisories and disaster risk resilience needs of different sectors. WINDS has been adopted by 7 States/UTs (Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Odisha, Puducherry, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand) wherein as on date, 16,843 sites have been approved for installation, civil work has been completed in 1,188 site and 892 AWS/ ARGs have been installed.
The PMFBY envisages adoption of improved technology in implementation of the scheme. Accordingly, Yield Estimation System based on Technology (YES-TECH) is being implemented with effect from Kharif 2023 for objective crop damage, loss assessment. YES-TECH envisages gradual migration to remote sensing based yield estimation to help in fair and accurate crop yield estimation. The initiative has been launched for paddy and wheat crops wef Kharif 2023 and for Soybean crop wef Kharif 2024 season wherein mandatory 30% weightage to yield estimation has been assigned to YES-TECH derived yield.
YES-TECH was implemented in 12 States across 344 Districts in 2025-26. Further, State Government of Madhya Pradesh has given 100% weightage to technology based yield, whereas State Governments of Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh has given 50% weightage while Odisha and Karnataka State Governments have given 40% weightage to YES-TECH based yield in 2025-26.
Government has a mechanism of rigorous review with stakeholders on effective YES-TECH implementation.
Following steps have been taken by Govt. of India to for timely settlement of claims under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana:
This information was given by the Union Minister of state for Agriculture and Farmers welfare, SHRI RAMNATH THAKUR in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.
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