National Conference On Kharif Campaign 2019

National Conference On Agriculture for Kharif

Campaign-2019

Department Of Agriculture Maharashtra State

State Initiatives

 MahaAGRITECH

 PBW Management strategies

 CROPSAP linked FFS

 Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan

 Magel tyala shet tale (Farm Pond On Demand)

 Group farming

MahaAGRITECH

• Background

• MahaAGRITECH

• Phase-I Study

• CROP ACREAGE for Phase-1 Districts

• Crop Mapping

• Condition & Yield Prospects

• Phase-II Study

• Modules of MahaAGRITECH

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Background ^{(1 of 2)}

• Natural calamities such as droughts, floods, abnormal weather events and biotic risks like pests and diseases continue to affect the agriculture adversely.

• Crop yield variability is ever increasing and has become a serious challenge to bring stability to farm production.

• Agriculture involving innumerable decisions amidst intricate complexities at all levels from farmers to planners needs the support of technologies.

• Technology interventions in agriculture is the only way-out to address ever- increasing challenges in this sector such as cultivation risks – weather,

pest/diseases, large yield gaps, inconsistent yield levels, increasing cost of cultivation – inputs, low and un-realisable MSP, non-remunerative market prices, poor market infrastructure and poor penetration of crop insurance etc.

• In order to address the challenges of agriculture sector department wanted to use Satellite imaging / Drone technological solutions.

• Department has contacted and gained understanding from various

organizations, education institutions and start-ups/agencies that work on the technologies of satellite imaginary, drones and GIS mapping for agriculture.

Background

^{(2 of 2)}

• Post extensive research department has chalked out implementation plan for the use of Satellite and drone technology in the agriculture sector.

• Institutions involved include:

• ISRO

• NRSC

• BAMU, Aurangabad

• GIPE, Pune

• Agriculture Universities of Maharashtra

• PoCRA

• MRSAC

• Department entrusted MRSAC & NRSC to address the challenges by launching MahaAGRITECH project

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MahaAGRITECH

• MahaAGRITECH was formally launched on 14^th Jan 2019 by Chief Minister of Maharashtra

• To Assess Crop Acreage, Condition & Production using Integrated Geo-ICT Technologies and Development of User friendly Dashboards for Agriculture Decision Support In

Maharashtra

• Phased approach for implementation of MahaAGRITECH.

– Phase-1: Covering 6 talukas of 5 divisions (Pilot Project).

– Phase-2: Covering Major Field crops & Major Horticulture crops of entire Maharashtra

Objectives of Phase-1 MahaAGRITECH

• Satellite based Crop Mapping (selected Kharif crops) and inventory at Circle and District level.

• Monitoring crop prospects with satellite derived indices.

• Crop yield modelling (semi empirical / process based) for pre-harvest assessment of crop yields for major crops

Phase-I Study

• Phase wise execution

• In phase-I, 6 districts from different agriculture divisions are selected

• Considered extended Kharif crops - Cotton, Tur & Rabi crops - Sorghum, Maize, Wheat & Grams

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# Division District Taluka Extended Kharif

Crops Rabi Crops

1 Aurangab

ad Beed Ambejoga

i Cotton, Tur Sorghum 2 Pune Solapur Mangalve

dha

- Sorghum

3 Nagpur Nagpur Mauda Cotton, Tur Wheat, Gram 4 Amravati Buldhan

a Buldhana Cotton, Tur Wheat, Gram 5 Nashik Jalgaon Jalgaon Cotton Gram, Maize 6 Aurangab

ad Latur Renapur Tur Wheat, Gram

Remote Sensing based CROP ACREAGE for Phase-1 Districts

S N DISTRICT

SLECTED KHARIF

CROPS SELECTED RABI CROPS

Cotton +

Tur Tur Rabi

Sorghum Wheat Gram Rabi Maize

1 Nagpur 317019.26 52760.87 68843.36

2 Buldana 239948.68 21350.31 106272.18

3 Jalgaon 443789.63 41135.22 21046.36

4 Beed 317019.26 56190.50

5 Latur 91335.6

3 85944.77

6 Solapur 235957.75

Not Selected for the study

Crop Mapping

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Kharif 2018-2019 (Cotton + Tur)

Beed Buldhana Nagpur

Crop Mapping

Cotton - Jalgaon

Kharif 2018-2019

Tur - Latur

Crop Mapping

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Rabi Sorghum - Solapur

Kharif 2018-2019

Gram - Latur

Change Detection of Tur Crop compared to previous year Latur District

(Ganjur village of Latur Taluka)

Crop Condition & Yield Prospects

• Based on the (LSWI & NDVI) and (Rainfall &

Rainydays) composite index is developed to assess crop condition and crop yield.

• Deviations are calculated taking 2017-18 as a base year

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LSWI Deviations +/-10% -10 to -20% -20 to -30% -30 to

-40% <-40%

NDVI Devia tion

>-10% Normal Normal Mild Modera

te Moderate -10 to

-20% Normal Normal Mild Modera

te Moderate -20 to

-30% Mild Mild Moderate Modera

te Moderate -30 to

-40% Moderate Moderate Moderate Severe Severe

<-40% Moderate Moderate Moderate Severe Severe Rainy days deviation

Rf deviation >20% 20 to -20

% -20 to -40% -40 to

-60% <-60%

>20% Normal Normal Mild Moderat

e Moderate

20 to -20 % Normal Normal Mild Moderat

e Moderate

-20 to -40% Mild Mild Moderate Moderat

e Moderate -40 to -60% Moderate Moderate Moderate Severe Severe

<-60% Moderate Moderate Moderate Severe Severe NDVI &

LSWI Dev Normal Mild Moderate Severe

Normal ^{Normal Normal Mild Moderate}

Mild Normal Mild Mild Moderate

Moderate ^{Mild Moderate Moderate Severe} Severe Moderate Moderate Severe Severe

NDVI_LSWI_Rainfall_Rainyda ys Matrix

1. Normal - Similar to that of 2017-18

2. Mild - Crop condition is slightly poor compared to 2017-18. (About10-20% reduction in crop sown area or crop yield or both are expected)

3. Moderate - Crop condition is poor compared to 2017- 18. (About 20-30%reduction in crop sown area or crop yield or both are expected).

4. Moderate to Severe - Crop condition is significantly poor compared to2017-18. (More than 30% reduction in crop sown area or crop yield or bothare expected) Disclaimer: The drought impact classes are indicative in nature. More detailedanalysis is to be carried-out to validate and improve the methodology.

Crop Condition & Yield Prospect Map

Phase-II Study

• Phase-2 will commence from June 2019

• Covers all Major Field crops & Major Horticulture crops in Maharashtra

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Objectives of Phase-2 MahaAGRITECH

• Development of Crop planning tools: Crop suitability assessment based on soil, weather, water resources, watershed development, cropping pattern, crop yield estimates, market trends etc.

• Crop mapping and inventory at circle and district level and provide maps and statistics during the season (covering major field crops and total crop area for kharif and rabi seasons).

• Crop mapping and inventory of major Horticulture crops

• Development of crop surveillance system with Mobile apps (CROPSAP), Weather data (AWS) and satellite based indices and analytics for providing the crop condition information and advisory services periodically during the season.

• Development and management of Drought Monitoring System (MahaMADAT) – providing drought indices to support drought declaration.

• Crop yield modeling (semi empirical / process based) for pre-harvest assessment of crop yields/indicative crop yields for major crops.

• Development of geospatial database of soil nutrient parameters based on Soil Health Card data to facilitate advisory services.

• Crop insurance solutions - Monitoring the insurance coverage based on insurance and cadastral data, risk index for

clustering, CCE data analysis, feasibility studies for implementing the smart sampling techniques

• Crop and weather data – Creation of time-series database on (a) area, yield and production of different crops, (b) market data and (c) rainfall and development of visualisation and analysis tools

• Asset inventory - Analysis of geo tagged assets created under different schemes (RKVY, PMKSY, MIDH, MTS, JSA etc.) and generation of value added information products for decision support

• Beneficiary farmers: Cadastral level mapping of farmer- beneficiaries of various schemes and generation of value added information products

# Division Area (Km2) % TGA 1 Amravati 46079.71 15.00 2 Aurangabad 28383.74 9.24

3 Kolhapur 26749.20 8.71

4 Konkan 30268.82 9.86

5 Latur 36287.19 11.82

6 Nagpur 51365.94 16.73

7 Nashik 40449.80 13.17

8 Pune 47525.45 15.48

TGA 307109.

85 100.00

Phase-II Study

Modules of MahaAGRITECH

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• Crop Acreage using satellite images

• Crop Sown Area

• Crop Health mapping

• Water Stress Assessment

• Crop Damage Assessment

• CCE

Planning/Optimiza

• tionCrop Yield Estimation

• Seasonal Crop Production Estimation

• Alternate crop suitability planning

• Optimum fertilizer recommendations

• Sowing intelligence

• Early season crop forecast

• Drought Analysis

• Commodity wise Demand &

Supply Estimation

• Demand & Supply

estimations for Agri-Inputs

• Site-Suitability for agri products storage

• Ground Truth Collection Application

• Smart CCE Application

• Grievance Redressal system

• Application for Farmers

Crop Mapping

Crop Mapping and an attempt to map orchard and

pastures

Crowd sourcing

inputs

Agriculture Assistants

inputs

Integration with CROPSAP

Processed moderate resolution multisensory

satellite data

Conventional and machine learning

algorithms INPUTS

This module is mainly aimed at:

- Identification of crops at district/ taluka/village using crop signatures

- Collection of crop information such as crop variety, irrigation source, crop sowing dates, photos of field etc.

Crop Surveillance

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Processed moderate resolution multisensory satellite

data

Integration with CROPSAP

and Mahawedh

Drones may be used to access

localized calamities

Crop Health Monitoring

– Algorithms to derive multiple periodic indices for vegetation, drought etc.

– Water budgeting models

Crop Water Stress Mapping

Crop Loss/

Damage Assessment

Crop Yield & Production Estimation

Processed moderate resolution multisensory

satellite data

Indices from crop surveillance

Algorithms

Historical data

Optimization & Planning of

Crop Cutting Experiment Crop Yield Seasonal crop

production estimation

Crop Acreage

Predictive Analysis

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Present Near Future Known

Future

Unknown Future Past

► Soil health card may be integrated with latest Cadastral data may help in providing optimum recommendation of fertilizers

► High resolution data with high repeativity helps to identify and forecast the early season crop sown area which helps in implementing the departments contingency plan with in a season

► Land suitability for alternate crops analysed by using various parameters such as topography, soil type, weather, irrigation facility etc.

► Existing

applications of soil health card,

watershed bodies, ground water

availability etc., may be integrated

► Deviation in sowing pattern to be

analysed by integrating the historical satellite data and various weather parameters

Sowing

Intelligence Draught Analysis Alternate Crop Sustainability

Analysis

Early season crop acreage

forecast

Optimum Fertilizer recommendation

► Conditions for natural calamities will be monitored in comparison with historic data available

► Integration of

existing MahaMadat and Mahavedh applications

Agri-Market Analysis

Mobile Solutions

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Ground Truth Collection Application

Mobile Application for collection Ground Truthing Information - Crop location, Pests & Disease, Irrigation source along with Geo- tagged photographs.

(Existing CROPSAP and MahaMadat application may be customized, if required to achieve these objectives)

1

^{Smart CCE} Application

Customized Crop Cutting Experiment (CCE) Mobile Application integrated with to provide better CCE planning &

execution.

2

^{Grievance Redressal} _system

To bridge the gap between all stakeholders and increase

transparency Integration with the Aaple Sarkar application

3

Application

for Farmers - open

discussion forum

Increased Farm Productivity and Ease of doing Agriculture can be achieved by a Mobile application that provides farmers timely information about weather, crop health, disease probability, fertilizer

recommendation, warehouse locations, market rates, procurement centers, etc.

Web based dashboard for

government

To assess the current nature of agriculture across the state and take preemptive and corrective measures when required

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PBW MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

Comprehensive strategies finalized under below four verticals

PBW MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

Administrative Strategies

• Intervention strategies were finalized in advance of the season and pest management strategy revised based on pest status

• Constitution of District Level Monitoring Committee

under District Collector for regular review of pest status and activities implemented in the district.

• Appointment of District coordinator from state level to all cotton growing district for assessments of PBW status and monitoring management campaign

• Involvement of people’s representatives

• Multiple workshops were conducted at State, Division and District level to plan PBW management activities ₂₅

PBW MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

Administrative Strategies

• Organization of PBW management demonstrations consisting pheromone traps and Trichogramma bactrae on 100% subsidy on total 20100 hectare area from 201 villages (one village per Taluka)

• Subsidy for biological / chemical pesticide was made available @ Rs.750 per hectare on 50% subsidy.

• RAWE students of Agricultural Universities have been involved in PBW campaign to aware the farmers.

• Mass awareness is created by arranging Special Gramsabha, village meetings, farmer rallies, pictorial chariot, street plays, prabhat pheris, posters on IPM, timely termination of cotton etc.

PBW MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

Administrative Strategies

• Special campaign organised in cotton ginneries, cotton storage and market places for sanitation and installation of pheromone and light traps for PBW mass trapping.

• Involvement of inputs manufacturers through CSR.

Private industries involved in PBW management

campaign to use cotton stubbles after harvesting for making fuel briquette/cake so the hibernating pest and diseases in cotton stubbles get destroyed.

• Special concentration is given to avoid ratooning.

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PBW MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

Legal Strategies

• Seed sale and its movement were restricted throughout the State up to 21st May, 2018 under Maharashtra

Cotton Seed Act, 2009 to avoid pre seasonal sowing as well as minimize the sowing window

• Long durational 35 cotton varieties were banned in the State that serves as continuous hosts of pink bollworm.

• Sell of same pesticide by different brand names was restricted

• Refugia in Bag (RIB): Bt seed was deployed to avoid resistance development

• Stringent Quality Control approaches were deployed

PBW MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

Technical Strategies

• Stakeholder wise activities were planned stating benefits / causes, dos and don’ts as well as who, when and where management

activity are to be undertaken

• Combined field visits of SAU, KVK Scientists and Agriculture

Department Officials organised in pest affected areas to guide the farmers

• Farmers were induced to use pheromone traps for monitoring and mass trapping of PBW

• Trainings to farmers and dealers were conducted for Safe and Judicious Use of Pesticides

– More than 54,500 farmers from 545 Agriculture Circle (100 farmers/Circle) were trained to use IPM techniques for PBW management and safe and judicious use of pesticides.

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PBW MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

ICT Strategies

• Mobile app was developed to capture geo-tagged data and images

• Pest advisory and recommended pesticide information to farmers through mobile app.

• Use of social media for mass awareness

• Use of mKISAN portal for advisory dissemination

• Pest management advise through toll free no.

• Pest reports and advisories put in public domain (for more details visit http://mahaagricropsap.gov.in/ )

PBW MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

ICT Strategies contd.

• Continuous monitoring and surveillance through M-CROPSAP Application

• 9,765 advisories issued by SAUs in Kharif 2018 which reached to 17.21 Lakh registered cotton growing farmers through SMS

• Awareness of PBW was created through various media options such as print, radio, TV advertisements, WhatsApp groups and YouTube, educational videos etc.

• Real time categorisation of above ETL villages were informed to stakeholders on a daily basis via system generated emails played crucial role by improvement in delivery time

• Sharing of information by farmers benefited the other farmers

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CROPSAP Linked FFS programme 2019-20

 Crops covered (8): Paddy, Cotton, Soybean, Tur, Gram, Maize, Sugarcane & sorghum.

 State level one day orientation session conducted on 12.4.2019.

 Division level one day orientation scheduled during 15.04.2019 to 22.04.2019 likely district and block level orientation will be

completed by the end of April.

 FFS Planning in 2019-20: 12000 FFS through 10620 Agriculture Assistants, 1170 Agriculture Supervisors and 17589 Farmers

Friends. ATM, BTM under ATMA and PoCRA Facilitator will also be get involved.

 Every Agriculture Assistant and Agriculture Supervisor will conduct a FFS in one village in their jurisdiction.

CROPSAP Linked FFS programme 2019-20

 Involvement of SAUs and KVKs will be ensured.

 Selection of village and crop: Villages covered for surveillance under CROPSAP having major area of crop will be selected for conducting FFS.

 FFS will be conducted in intercropped area as per the norms of PoCRA.

 Regular FFS having sufficient financial provision will be conducted by trained Facilitators in identified villages.

 Funds for FFS will be made available through convergence of various crop schemes, RKVY/ ATMA cafeteria

 The financial limit will be equivalent to the cost norms for conducting demonstration under various schemes.

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CROPSAP Linked FFS programme 2019-20

 FFS will be Conducted every fortnightly according to crop phases as:

 Before Sowing - Land preparation, soil testing, Contour Cultivation, Selection of suitable Variety.

 Nursery Management- for Paddy.

 At The Time Of Sowing - Seed Treatment, Sowing method, BBF, opening of Dead Furrows, basal dose application

 Growth Phase- Inter culturing, Pest & Disease monitoring and Management, Fertigation, Irrigation management including Life saving Irrigation,

 Harvest and Post Harvest Phase - Harvesting Methods, Handling, Drying, Cleaning, Grading and Proper storage.

CROPSAP Linked FFS programme 2019-20

• Development Of Technical Material

 Crop wise committees formed for Preparation of technical information.

 Information available in all format collected from all sources and given to the technical committees and

DJDAs for Preparation of crop wise FFS Module for Kharif -2019.

 Audio-Visual material will be prepared at state level and made available to extension machinery

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Jalyukat Shivar Abhiyan

Jalyukat Shivar Abhiyan

Period - 2016-17 to 2018-19

• Target : 1,12,311

• Applications received : 4,02,212

• Work order issued : 2,45,699

• Completed Farm Ponds : 1,19,923

• Ongoing Farm Ponds : 3,662

• Subsidy Paid Farm Ponds : 1,12,600

• Total Expenditure (In Crore.) : 540.00 Cr.

“Magel Tyala Shettale (Farm Pond On

Demand)”

• This is Flagship programme of Govt. of Maharashtra.

• Group Farming includes Ease of doing farming by Improved technologies, Mechanizations, Use of marketing System, Post-harvest management, Processing and value addition etc. for Agriculture and allied components.

Scheme Features

• This Scheme is implemented in all districts of Maharashtra.

• Limit of minimum 20 farmers and minimum total 100 acre of land is compulsory for each Farmer Groups. But for Kokan Division total 50 acre of land is admissible. Accordingly the financial assistance is given to each group.

Implementation of Group Farming Scheme for promotion and

Strengthening of Group Farming

Scheme Features contd.

• In this Scheme 60% Assistance is given to the each Farmers Group for implementing the various activities of Agriculture and Allied sectors.

• Maximum up to Rs.100.00 Lakh financial assistance is given to each registered farmers Group which is sanctioned under this scheme.

• As per total Cost of the project, 20% amount from self-contribution of farmers groups and 20% amount from Bank Loan is admissible.

Remaining 60 % amount will be sanctioned as Govt. Subsidy to Farmers Group under this scheme.

• Out of total assistance minimum 75% assistance is given to community base activities and maximum 25% assistance is given to individual activities.

Implementation of Group Farming Scheme for promotion and Strengthening of Groups Farming

Beneficiary Criteria

• As per Financial provision, districtwide target will be given and accordingly minimum 5 to 6 Farmer Groups per district have been formed in each year.

• Authority to selection of farmers groups is with District Level Committee under the chairmanship of District Collector.

• District level committee will give final sanction to Detailed Project Report (DPR) of the Farmers Groups.

• Community base collection, storage and Processing Centre and Marketing components are compulsory for each Farmers Group having minimum 20% Expenditure out of total project cost.

• Other basic criteria for selection of Groups are also applicable.

Implementation of Group Farming Scheme for promotion and Strengthening of Groups Farming (100% State Sponsored Scheme)

Year wise Expenditure

Sr.

No. Year

Target Grants

Released (Rs. In Lakhs)

Achievements

Remarks

Phy.

(No. of Groups)

Fin.

(Rs. in lakhs)

Phy.

(No. of Groups)

Fin.

(Rs. in lakhs)

1 2017-

18 200 20000.00 3150.00 196 343.38 -

2 2018-

19 200 20000.00 8000.00 204 7353.47 Total Expenditure include expenditure incurred for farmer Groups of 2017-18 and 2018-19

Implementation of Group Farming Scheme for promotion and

Strengthening of Groups Farming (100% State Sponsored Scheme)

Note: Spill over programme of the year 2017-18 and 2018-19 will be implemented in the year 2019-20.

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