Union Agricultural Ministry has partnered the National Remote Sensing Centre, ISRO for geotagging agricultural assets.
Agriculture Ministry under the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana and NRSC/ISRO have signed an MoU to this effect.
It will improve governance due to real-time monitoring and effective utilisation of agricultural assets such as ponds, crop area, warehouses and laboratories etc.
Currently, officials provide information on the assets manually, so there is no transparency.
Geo-tag will provide realistic status of assets.
It will not only help in monitoring and utilising assets but will be useful in formulating schemes for development in the agricultural sector.
It will also help in avoiding duplication of data.
Utilisation of space technology will help farmers to further get access to pesticide testing labs, storage infrastructure, and market-related information.
What is RKVY?- RKVY is a special Additional Central Assistance Scheme.
- It was launched in August 2007 as a part of the 11th Five Year Plan.
- It was aimed to orient agricultural development strategies, to reaffirm its commitment to achieve 4% annual growth in the agricultural sector during the 11th plan (2007–11).
- It was also launched to incentivise the States to provide additional resources in their State Plans over and above their baseline expenditure to bridge critical gaps.
Geotagging- It is the process of adding geographical identification like latitude and longitude to various media such as a photo or video.
- It helps user to find a wide variety of location-specific information from a device.
- It provides users the pinpoint location of the content of a given picture.
- Geomapping is a visual representation of the geographical location of geotagged assets layered on top of map or satellite imagery.
