Subject(s): Agricultural insurance in India. -- Risk management in India. -- Agriculture in Economic aspects in India. -- Risk management at farmers level, community level, production risk, technological change and crop insurance, market risks, government interventions and future market sources -- Principle risks : Risk environment, ICRISAT village studies, crop failure, components of production risk, rainfall risk, droughts and climate change, pest and disease, market risk, price risk -- Risk management at the farm household level : Self insurance, land tenure and risk, agricultural investments, investment in technology,crop diversification, inter cropping, production flexibility and information, risk reduction inputs -- Risk management at community level : informal credit, patronage, communal resources, informal insurance ,risk pooling and perfect mutual insurance -- Production risk, technology change and crop insurance : improved varieties - fertiliser, moisture stress, pests, riskiness of net return, evidence on aggregate instability, output stability and irrigation, crop insurance, national agricultural insurance scheme, suicides by farmers -- Market risks, government interventions and future markets : price support programmes, contract farming, future markets