<span style="color: #222222;">The Centre is taking several measures to ensure smooth harvesting of Rabi Crop and sowing of summer crop. Department of Agriculture Cooperation and Farmers Welfare, conducted a video conference with all States and Insurance companies to review the payment of claims, status of Conduct of Crop Cutting Experiments, CCEs for Rabi crops, crop loss survey and implementation of Smart Sampling Technique, ensuring that the farmers do not suffer from any adverse fall out during the lockdown period.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">For facilitating farm insurance, letters have been issued to all States to issue passes to representatives of concerned Insurance companies for co-witnessing Crop Cutting Experiments and to relax the norms for conducting field level survey for intimation received for Post-Harvest crop losses due to nonseasonal rainfall and hailstorm.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">According to an official release, Phyto-Sanitary Certification for export consignments and Import releases of plant and plant products are continuing. From the date of lockdown till date, a total of 3,776 PSCs have been issued for export consignments and 1,074 import consignments have been released.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In lockdown period, Kisan Call Centres at all 21 locations are being operated by diverting calls to individual mobile numbers of Farm Tele Advisors, who are now operating from homes. All 454 KCC seats are being operated daily between 6 A.M. to 10 P.M. Call flow is about 15 thousand to 20 thousand per day.</span><br />