National Conference on Geospatial Technologies in Agriculture 20-21 February, 2020 Book of Abstracts Organized by Association for Management of Agricultural Research and Agripreneurship (AMARA) In collaboration with ICAR-National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM) Citation P D Sreekanth and M Balakrishnan (Eds), 2020. Book of Abstracts, National Conference on Geospatial Technologies in Agriculture, 20-21 February, 2020. ICAR-National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, Hyderabad. Pp:215. ISBN: 978-81-943090-6-2 Editors P D Sreekanth M Balakrishnan Year of Publication: 2020 Cover page design: Mr. P Namdev Published by Association for Management of Agricultural Research and Agripreneurship (AMARA) ICAR-NAARM Campus Rajendranager, Hyderabad-500 030 Printed at : Balaji Scam Pvt. Ltd. Nampally, Hyderabad – 500001, Telangana, INDIA. Tel: 23303424/25, 9848032644 e-mail:
[email protected] Disclaimer The abstracts included in this Book of Abstracts remain the work of the authors/ co-authors and minimally edited to maintain uniformity in style of presentation. MESSAGE In our Country, agriculture supports more than 60% of the population. Around 51% of India’s geographical area is under cultivation. Major shares of its GDP comes from agriculture sector. Government recently launched some major schemes like crop insurance, per drop more crop, Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojna to enhance the productivity of the crops. Initiatives like organic farming and increase in the production of pulses are also been taken. Geographical Information System (GIS) plays a vital role to use the latest technologies useful for the decision makers can visualize all the farmlands with their allied information and current situation on one click. The tasks like yield estimation and crop damage assessment done by traditional means take month or two and a whole lot of manpower to complete the work.