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Vaidyanathan committee recommends remote sensing, centre for agricultural statistics
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Monday, 29 November, 2010, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, New Delhi
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The expert committee set up under the chairmanship of Prof. A Vaidyanathan to suggest ways to improve agricultural statistics has called for using remote sensing and restructuring the data collection machinery.
In its interim report, the expert committee has recommended setting up of the National Crop Statistics Centre (NCSC) to deal with all aspects of crop area and yield estimation.
In pursuance to recommendations of steering committee on agriculture and allied sector for thorough review of schemes and collection of agricultural statistics, few has been the decisions taken in the meeting with and National Statistical Commission (NSC) will look into:
● The problems relating to the methodology and procedures followed for the collection/estimation of data on land use, cropping and yields and suggest measures for improvement.
● Assess the potential of remote sensing techniques to collect these data and to indicate how to utilise this potential.
● Suggest institutional framework for improvement of agricultural statistics.
The ministry of agriculture says that these recommendations will help bring improvements in basic system of agricultural statistics.
The initial tenure of the committee, which was constituted on February 26, 2009, was for six months but it has been extended up to December 31, 2010.
The committee also decided to undertake a rigorous exercise for estimation of statistical data on area, production and yield by remote sensing in selected villages over different seasons in crop year 2009-10.
The interim report has brought out that the deficiencies in the current system of both area and yield estimation arises from serious lacuna in institutional arrangements to collect, supervise and validate basic data on large scale on diverse crops.
It has also recommended the creation of the National Crop Statistics Centre (NCSC) as an autonomous professionally run organisation fully funded by the Centre to design, organise and supervise the generation of crop area and yield estimates at the state and national level.
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