EconomicTimes: Satellite data-based crop insurance offers hope for Bihar’s flood-stricken farmers

It uses an advanced modelling technique with satellite data to enable quick insurance pay-outs to those affected.

A team from IWMI, a non-profit, scientific research organisation focusing on the sustainable use of water and land resources in developing countries, visited the farmers on Friday to collect more information from ground zero after the floods receded — and to assure farmers that they would get their insurance money.

 

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