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FASAL is a countrywide project funded by the Ministry of
Agriculture and Cooperation and executed by DOS along with various State Remote
Sensing Applications Centres, State Departments of Agriculture and Agricultural
Universities. Crop production forecasting of major crops in the country namely
wheat, rice, cotton, sugarcane, mustard, groundnut and sorghum has been done
for 2007-08. Radarsat ScanSAR multi-date data for rice acreage estimation and
meteorological data based model for yield forecasting was used to give two
forecasts for 2008 kharif season. The first forecast was released on September
16, 2008 and the second on October 16, 2008. Total Kharif Rice cropped area was
estimated as 35.64 M ha, and production as 78.38 Mt.. Potato production in UP
and Punjab has been done which was 10.02 Mt and 1.5 Mt respectively. Crop
acreage estimation and production forecast at district level using LISS-III
data has been completed for sugarcane in UP, cotton in Gujarat, Rajasthan, MP,
Punjab, Haryana, and mustard in MP.
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