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15/07/22 08:32 AM IST

National Conference on Methodology of Crop Estimation held

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  • The Directorate of Economics and Statistics (DES), Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare (DA&FW) under Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers organised a Conference on Estimation of Crop Production in New Delhi.
About National Conference 
  • AIM- at discussion about various methodologies used by different agencies for crop estimation, sharing their best practices and to tri-angulate the reasons for variation between the estimates generated by different agencies and the way forward to generate responsible agricultural crop estimates.
  • Around 300 participants from various fields such as Central Ministries / Departments, State Governments, Private agencies involved in Crop Estimation and FAO participated in the conference.
  • The crop estimation methodology used by the Central Government is widespread and covers the highest number of crop for production estimation, the Mahalanobis Crop Forecasting Centre (MNCFC) uses remote sensing through satellite imagery for crop estimation and the Institute of Economic Growth uses econometric modelling for the estimation of various crops in the country.
Source- PIB

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