Vol. 12, Issue 3 (2023)

Agriculture and allied sector contributes approximately 13.9% of India’s GDP but still Indian agriculture is facing many challenges, which hinder the potential of agricultural production. In these challenges natural calamities like hail, drought, floods, cyclone and typhoon are very severe because they are out of control for human being, but we can mitigate the loss from these calamities with the help of crop insurance. The present study was conducted in Jaipur district of Rajasthan as this district had highest number of registered farmers under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) as compared to other districts of the state. Findings of the study revealed that that in case of beneficiary farmers, knowledge had positive and significant relationship with education (4.02**), mass media exposure (3.44**) and extension agency contact (4.27**) at one per cent level of significance, whereas, occupation (2.46*), annual income (2.40*) was significantly associated with knowledge level of the beneficiary respondents at five per cent level of significance.