Visualizing landscape diagnostic survey data of rice on Krishi Vigyan Kendra knowledge network

Abstract

Under Cereal System Initiative for South Asia (CSISA), data on farmer’s current crop production practices called Landscape Diagnostic Survey (LDS) have been collected through Open Data Kit (ODK), an Android based digital data collection tool. LDS has so far been deployed in eight Indian states covering more than 100 districts for detailed diagnosis of current production practices and yields. These data are aggregated and stored at ICAR Data Centre of ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI). There were altogether 14491 data points including data from rice, wheat and maize crops. With these data, a dashboard has been created for showcasing information which can be used for further analysis. The dashboard is linked with Krishi Vigyan Kendra Knowledge Network or KVK Portal (ICAR-IASRI 2016) and hosted at https://kvk.icar.gov.in/CSISA.aspx. A number of reports, graphics and map views have been developed and integrated into this dashboard. In this chapter, the dashboard based on the production practices survey data of rice crop (number of data points = 6824) is discussed. This dashboard has been developed using ASP.NET framework 3.5 (Walther, 2011). For database designing and development, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (LeBlanc, 2013) has been used.