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National Crop Forecast Centre for Yield Estimation
In News : National Crop Forecast Centre for Yield Estimation
News Source : PIB, Govt.
- CFCC (erstwhile National Crop Forcast Centre) was created at the end of the year 1998.
- Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre was established in New Delhi to provide in-season crop forecasts and assessment of drought situation using state of the art techniques and methodologies developed by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
- Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre was inaugurated on 23rd April, 2012
- P. C. Mahalanobis was great Indian Statistician.
- Government of India plans to migrate towards technology based yield estimation from the conventional Crop Cutting Experiment (CCE) based yield estimation approach. Towards this, few pilot studies have been initiated by taking various Government and Private Agencies On-board. During Kharif 2019, pilot studies were conducted through 12 agencies in 64 districts of 15 States for 9 crops envisaging innovative technologies such as High Resolution Satellite data (Optical and microwave), Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), Advanced multi-parameter crop models, Mobile Applications for Field Data Collection, Artificial intelligence/ Machine learning approach, Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Field based digital photographs, Hand held instruments and Scientifically designed Sampling Plans.
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