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FASAL Programme

March 3, 2021
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About Forecasting Agricultural output using Space,Agro-meteorology and Land based observations

(FASAL) Programme

  • The programme is sponsored by Ministry of Agriculture.
  •  A team of ISRO/Department of Space, State Remote Sensing Applications Centers, State Agricultural Universities and many other institutions are working on this project.
  • Under the operational component of the FASAL programme of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, MNCFC regularly generates crop forecasts at District/State/National level for 9 major crops of the country, using the procedures developed by Space Applications Centre, ISRO. 
  • Both optical and microwave Remote sensing data is used for crop acreage estimation, crop condition assessment and production forecasting. 
  • In the year 2017-18, total 17 forecasts were generated for 9 crops, such as Jute, Kharif Rice, Sugarcane, Cotton, Rapeseed & Mustard, Rabi Sorghum, Wheat, Rabi Pulses and Rabi Rice.

  • National/State/District level crop production forecasts were generated using multi-date AWiFS NDVI product/LISS-III/Sentinel 2/ Landsat-8 and multi date Sentinel 1A SAR data for acreage estimation and estimation of crop yield, using multiple approaches, 
    • semi-physical remote sensing based model 
    • Remote Sensing index based yield models 
    • correlation weighted district level Agromet model of IMD iv) Crop simulation model by IMD 
    • data obtained from crop cutting experiments.
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Source: ncfc.gov.in and Indian Express
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