Agriculture

Fibre Crop Information System

Cotton and jute are most important fibre crops of our country. A Fibre Crop Information System is developed using geo-spatial technologies. This will aid in geneartion of spatial fibre crop database and ollection of field level observations, centralized monitoring and assessment of cotton and jute crop condition.

Monitoring and assessment of fibre crop prospects is facilitated with space-based observations and customised mobile application for collection field data through centralized web service on Bhuvan.  This has facilitated the collection of significant amount of field based observations (about 12,000 over cotton crop in 9 states; about 2000 observations over jute crop in 4 states during 2016-17) . NRSC efforts have benifitted the Ministry of Textiles, GOI as the crop status reports are being generated through near real time monitoring of growth and development of fibre crops and aiding in efficient policy making. Sustainable use/optimal management of resources, mobile apps for field data collection, geo-tagging of the offices/establishments/ centers related to these crops, data visualization and automatic report generation, analysis are being done on Bhuvan portal.