The UP government has shortlisted as many as 19 districts for an ambitious satellite-linked digital crop survey project to determine the crop-sown data on a real time basis in the forthcoming Kharif season.
The districts which have been selected for the project include Varanasi, Ayodhya, Chandauli, Bhadohi, SantKabirNagar, Auraiya, Mahoba, Hamirpur, Chitrakoot, Jhansi, Jalaun, Sultanpur, Jaunpur, Pratapgarh, Mirzapur, Moradabad, Farrukhabad, Basti and Hardoi.
The project is also proposed to be executed in at least 10 villages of different tehsils in the rest 56 districts on a pilot basis. The government would be geo-referencing the agricultural land before the 2023-24 Kharif and Rabi season, officials said. The State Government aims to cover the entire state by 2024-25. The development comes less than a month after the Centre signed an agreement with six states, including UP, Assam, Madhya Pradesh,OdishaandRajasthan, to begin the digital crop survey. The survey is essentially part of the governments `Agristack of India Digital Ecosystem and Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture (IDEA) that has been under development since 2020.