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A parliamentary committee reported in August 2021 that one of the major reasons claims are delayed or not settled is yield-related disputes between insurers and States, and late transmission of yield data. The yield data comes from crop-cutting experiments run by State governments, which the committee called highly time-consuming and labour-intensive, and a challenging task for States because of limited infrastructure, funds and a short harvesting period. The committee found that satellite-based smart sampling in some States had shown increased efficiency and recommended expanding it. In December 2024 the Ministry said its technology-based yield system, YES-TECH, had been launched for paddy and wheat from Kharif 2023 (with a mandatory 30% weight in the yield estimate) and soybean from Kharif 2024, and was being implemented in 10 States. In July 2026 the Ministry told the Rajya Sabha that claims are worked out from crop-cutting-experiment yields as well as YES-TECH estimates 'wherever applicable'. What these do not show: the 10-State figure counts States, not crops, farmers or claims, and the committee statements describe causes reported to it in 2021; they do not measure how many claims were delayed. The sources reviewed do not say what share of claims each method now decides, or how many yield disputes occur today. In plain words: before a farmer can be paid, officials in each State have to measure what was actually harvested, field by field, and this is slow and hard to do. A satellite-based method is being brought in, but the Ministry's own figures show it applying to selected crops and States. Evidence confidence: Medium for 2021 and 2024; current YES-TECH coverage is not established.
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A parliamentary committee reported in August 2021 that one of the major reasons claims are delayed or not settled is yield-related disputes between insurers and States, and late transmission of yield data. The yield data comes from crop-cutting experiments run by State governments, which the committee called highly time-consuming and labour-intensive, and a challenging task for States because of limited infrastructure, funds and a short harvesting period. The committee found that satellite-based smart sampling in some States had shown increased efficiency and recommended expanding it. In December 2024 the Ministry said its technology-based yield system, YES-TECH, had been launched for paddy and wheat from Kharif 2023 (with a mandatory 30% weight in the yield estimate) and soybean from Kharif 2024, and was being implemented in 10 States. In July 2026 the Ministry told the Rajya Sabha that claims are worked out from crop-cutting-experiment yields as well as YES-TECH estimates 'wherever applicable'. What these do not show: the 10-State figure counts States, not crops, farmers or claims, and the committee statements describe causes reported to it in 2021; they do not measure how many claims were delayed. The sources reviewed do not say what share of claims each method now decides, or how many yield disputes occur today. In plain words: before a farmer can be paid, officials in each State have to measure what was actually harvested, field by field, and this is slow and hard to do. A satellite-based method is being brought in, but the Ministry's own figures show it applying to selected crops and States. Evidence confidence: Medium for 2021 and 2024; current YES-TECH coverage is not established.
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