Syllabus: GS3/Major crops-cropping patterns in various parts of the country
News
- The Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister recently made a pitch for generating real-time assessments of likely yields for all essential crops.
About
- The demand is in vogue as the country suffers from a want of an automated system of reliable farm output estimation.
- As of now, we can estimate the extent of land which is getting covered under wheat, but we don’t know what will be the output.
- A new automated real-time Yield Estimation System called YES-Tech was put in place from this Kharif season for the wheat and rice crop.
- The system, created with assistance from ISRO and ICAR, will be ramped up to cover other crops, particularly pulses and oilseeds.
- That would help the economy much better so that we can plan our imports to ensure that the farmer doesn’t suffer because of policy relating to imports or exports.
Source: TH
