CROPS DIVISION DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND COOPERATION MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA KRISHI BHAWAN NEW DELHI Expectations from Space Application Centre

Mandate Assist Crop weather watch group with State wise weekly crop area and crop health status Set and monitor achievement of crop production targets Promote crop production programs as per the priorities and the committed budgetary resources

Organization Nine crop development directorates in the field at Ghaziabad-wheat, Lucknow,-sugarcane Jaipur- coarse cereals, Patna-rice, Kolkata-jute, Bhopal- pulses, Mumbai-cotton, Hyderabad-oilseeds, Chennai-Tobacco that liaise with State Directors of Agriculture to get weekly crop status – area and health Project Management Teams under crop development programs at National, State and District Levels

Main Programs National Food Security Mission focused on three food crops in selected Districts covering 50% of rice and wheat crops and almost entire pulses crops Accelerated Pulses Production Program focused on five pulses crops Red Gram, Green Gram, Black Gram, Gram, Lentils in 15 States  1000 units of 1000 hectares each covering all farmers  Dedicated Extension personnel for every 100 hectares unit Integrated development of 60,000 pulses villages covering 174 pulses units, 30,000 farm ponds, 150 farmer producer organizations of 1000 farmers each Bringing Green Revolution to Eastern India focused 269 units of rice and 122 units of wheat in seven States – Eastern UP, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal and Assam Monitoring and Evaluation strongly built into the programs with support of technical institutions like IIPR for pulses, CRRI for Rice, NCIPM for pest surveillance

Concerns Crop response to the technologies promoted  Varietal performance in minikits  Usefulness of Agronomic practices – DSR, SRI  Comparison with baseline and with FLDs to assess farmers’ preference w.r.t. constraints Crop area and production estimates  Summer moong, Summer urad  Pigeon pea intercrop with soybean, blackgram intercrop with maize and sugarcane  Additional pulses area in kharif rice fallows and on rice bunds

Possible collaboration with SAC Support monitoring through  Assessment of area and production crop season wise  Crop status over its cycle in identified clusters, groups, areas District wise disaggregated data for APY validated by NFSM  Ground truthing through crops division in clusters, groups, fallows, summer crops, intercrops Promoting research work  to build spectral library on varieties and hybrids of interest  Pulses, intercrops, additional pulses and oilseeds area in fallows

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