Agriculture

Crop Insurance

The Pradhan Mantri Fasal BimaYojana (PMFBY) is a national flagship programme for providing crop insurance in the country. NRSC is carrying out geomatics based studies towards improving the area-yield estimates, a key input to  the development of  methodologies for crop insurance mechanism. Methodologies were developed and tested  at state level for Odisha. Generation of homogeneous insurance units (with village as unit) with reduced basis risk, investigation on crop yield estimation methods in Insurance Units, suggestion of improved methods for yield estimation are the primary contributions.

Crop Insurance Decision Support System (CIDSS) is being developed through a web-enabled integrated package for States. This will improve efficiency and transparency in crop insurance mechanism by enabling objective decision making, sampling design for yield estimation, generating yield estimates in the insurance units. Mobile applications are developed for crowd sourcing for field data collection, Crop Cutting Experiments (CCE) and crop damage assessment through Bhuvan Portal.