Context: Agriculture Minister has recently inaugurated a Krishi Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) set up at Krishi Bhavan in New Delhi. This is a big-screen dashboard of all digital innovations in the sector.

About Krishi Integrated Command and Control Centre

• Description: It is a tech-based solution involving multiple IT applications and platforms which helps in making informed decisions. It is housed in the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare.

• Objective: To monitor the farm sector by ensuring availability of geospatial information received from multiple sources at one place.

• These sources include remote sensing; plot-level data received through soil survey; weather data from the India Meteorological Department (IMD); sowing data from Digital Crop Survey.

• Visual output: Information on crop yields, production, drought situation, cropping patterns (geographic region-wise and year-wise) in map etc will be displayed on 8 large 55-inch LED screens installed at the ICCC.

Significance of Krishi Integrated Command and Control Centre

• FARMER’S ADVISORY: It allows visualisation of GIS based soil carbon mapping and soil health card data for a particular district together at one place. This will help in ensuring a customised and authentic advisory to be sent to the farmers.

• DROUGHT ACTIONS: Increase or decrease in yield from a specific region (as per GCES data) can be correlated with weather, rainfall, and other information available in Drought Portal.

• This would help the administration to understand the reason for increase/ decrease in yield.

• CROP DIVERSIFICATION: An analysis of crop diversification maps will help decision-makers to identify regions which have a scope for crop diversification.

• FARM DATA REPOSITORY: Krishi Decision Support System (K-DSS), a platform under development, will act as an agriculture data repository. This platform will help in evidence-based, efficient, and data-driven decision-making.

• VALIDATION OF YIELD: Yield that is captured through Krishi MApper can be analysed with the yield that is generated through GCES application for a plot.

• Individual farmer level advisories: It can ensure individual farmer-level advisories by using apps like Kisan e-mitra.