Rice is the major crop in India and it is grown in different climatic zones. As agriculture is mainly based on spatial domain, use of geospatial technologies in agriculture has a big role in achieving the target production. IIRR manages a huge experimental database under All India Coordinated Rice Research Program. ICAR-IIRR has been applying geospatial technologies to improve rice production since 2000. With this background,
IIRR Geo-Portal (http://www.iirr-geoportal.in) has been developed to visualize spatial layers developed at IIRR on the real world coordinates. Open source technologies such as GeoServer, GeoExt, ExtJS , HTML, CSS and QGIS were used for the development of this Geo-Portal. This portal visualises the following geo referenced layers of rice crop created at IIRR.
AICRIP funded Centers
- Agro Climatic Zones- 15 (Planning Commission).
- District level Rice Area and Yield (2005, 2010, 2015)
- Rice based Cropping Systems- Rice- Rice and Rice Wheat
- Soil Quality Index- Nalgonda district, Telangana
- Rice yield estimated from Spatial Rice DSS- Miryalaguda Mandal, Nalgonda Dt, Telangana
- Vulnerable temperature Zones forecasted for Kharif season
- Suitable Areas for Hybrid Seed Production- Favourable weeks during flowering - Kharif and Rabi seasons
- Important Diseases of Rice crop- Distribution and Severity (10 diseases).
This portal is very useful for researchers and planners for analyzing the rice productivity scenario over decades at the district level overlaying with different parameter layers influencing rice production. This portal will be further upgraded with spatial query modules to extract the interesting area of interest and interoperability services across ICAR institutes with REST APIs. This portal can be easily customized to any other institutes to publish GIS layers.
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