IIRR GeoPortal

Abstract

Rice is the world’s most important food crop and a primary source of food for more than half of the world’s population. As population continues to grow and to achieve the targeted yield 120-130 million tonnes by 2025, increasing rice productivity is very important. India represents all kinds of diversity under which rice is grown across the globe. The new agricultural paradigm will have to be recast to take advantage of the wealth of knowledge available to achieve multiple goals of sustaining the food security. Current advances in ICT are making smart farms as DATA has become key element in Modern Agriculture to help growers in critical decision making. Data-Driven Agriculture like Remote Sensing, GIS and Proximity Sensing (Internet of Things i.e. sensors and other devices) drives agriculture to generate a big amount of valuable precise information. IIRR manages huge experimental database under All India Coordinated Rice Research Program. As agriculture is mainly based on spatial domain, use of geospatial technologies in agriculture has a big role in achieving the target production. With this background, IIRR GeoPortal has been developed to visualize Spatial layers developed at IIRR in the real world co-ordinates as ICAR-IIRR has been applying geospatial technologies to improve rice production since 2000. Not Available