In the digital survey conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture, interesting information about crop data in the country. The Central Government has conducted a digital survey of three lakh villages. These villages come under 435 districts of 14 states. This entire work has been completed by the government under its ambitious project digital crop survey (TCS). Experts call it very good for its decisions.
Reached 20.0 lakh hectares of data
According to the report of the newspaper The Hindu Business, at least 23 million three million villages were included in the survey. According to the results, the crop sector increased by 19 percent. This number is many acres more than manually surveyed. Now the district of those states will not be added more in TCs.
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According to a survey conducted in 21 districts, the area has increased by 18.93 per cent, which has reached 20.9 lakh ha. This figure was under the traditional system of collecting information on 16.8 lakh hectares.
Paddy, sugarcane and peanut area also increased
Under the ministry’s assessment, the area of paddy increased by 14 per cent in the 2024 Carib session. Talking about sugarcane, this number is 48 percent and 111 per cent for peanuts. Even small millet types such as Gagun have expanded to 8 thousand 500 hectares and increased by 32 thousand 900 hectares in Kodo. These are stories like millet, which they do not pay much attention.
According to experts, after a digital survey, the data should be re -evaluated in areas where there is slightly disrupted in the collection of digital data. Experts say the digital survey is good, but the manual data collection must continue for the next few years until the reliability of digital data is proven.
2025 was decided on the target
At the same time, Mehearda said the Ministry of Agriculture is constantly involved in expanding TCs. The Ministry is planning to make this ambitious effort to make at least one district in each district of each district and all the other states of each district during the Carib season of 2025. This effort is being carried out under the government’s digital agricultural work. With the help of this effort, the Agriculture Secretary told the newspaper that a detailed source of sowing of the crop would be prepared at the national level.
Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Assam and Rajasthan are the best performance in the TCS. Each of these states reached its goal during last year’s Garib session. States who have reached more than 50 percent of Gujarat and Odisha.
What is the advantage of TCs
After the involvement of technology, Meharda has a lot of expectations for the future of TCs. With the help of this, he says that every small and large information about the crop can be prepared. It is also used as training data for machine learning models. Mehrda said that use the TCS crop survey, explore the health of the crop and make it easier to use AI with satellite images.
