In Rabi season 2020-21, FASAL
SALAH team carry out a study of crops grown in Hoshiarpur and Jalandhar
district of Punjab. Wheat is
the major crop of Hoshiarpur and Jalandhar district followed by Potato. Idea was to
look at the crop on ground as well as from satellite to see if size the crop
and yields could be determined.
FASAL
SALAH App, Our
Crop monitoring technology is unique using bottoms up approach with crop
monitoring at field level and correlating ground realities with real-time crop
vegetation index monitored via spectral analysis of high-resolution satellite
images for different fields and crops. This enables to track positive and
negative dynamics of crop development much more realistically.
This way it is more realistic
way of crop yield estimation before actual harvest. Our technology has been
field tested and awarded by Govt. of India
(Winner of Great Agriculture Challenge 2019).
Satellite
Image Processing and Vegetation Index-
The Terra Moderate Resolution
Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Vegetation Indices MOD13Q1 Version 6 (16-day
composite) NDVI image product with spatial resolution of 250m, was used in this
work. The satellite image has been pre-processed to rectify the geometrical
errors.
The Soil Moisture Active Passive
(SMAP) with 9 km resolution data used in this assessment, The SMAP spacecraft
carries two instruments, a radar (active) and a radiometer (passive), that
together make global measurements of land surface soil moisture and freeze/thaw
state. It is useful for monitoring and predicting natural hazards such as
floods and droughts, understanding the linkages between Earth’s water, energy
and carbon cycles, and reducing uncertainties in predicting weather and
climate.
During the rabi season sentinel-
2 (Optical) data was used for the crop classification. Sentinel-2 is the
high-resolution optical satellite of ESA and the EU. The images have a
resolution of 10 to 20 meters, higher than Landsat, and, as always with the
Copernicus programme, the data are free and open. A single date Sentinel-2
imagery has been taken and individual bands of 10m spatial resolution NIR, R,
and G are stacked together to create a multispectral image cube. Once the
stacked image is generated subset the area on the basis of AOI (area of interest),
then classified the stacked image using supervised classification and estimate
the crop acreage of wheat crop during the rabi season.
Our main task
is to conveniently combine all of the information about your fields in one
place, to identify and draw the attention of farmers to problem areas. To
achieve this, we collect data from different sources - satellite images,
weather data, soil types, vegetation maps, among others - and supplement it
with our own developments. After having analyzed the data obtained, the system
notifies the user of possible risks and changes provides the ability to cluster
fields and treat them accordingly, as well as predict yields. In the long run,
the system allows for optimal resource utilization and effective
decision-making.
About
Hoshiarpur
•
The district lies at the 31º 31’ 46. 53” N latitude and 75º 55’
12.00” E longitudes covering an area of 3,365 km2, according to the 2011
census Hoshiarpur district has a population of 1.6 million.
•
Hoshiarpur falls under
West Himalayan Region Zone with an annual rainfall of 301.4 mm with the South West
Monsoon, North East Monsoon, Winter and Summer supply.
•
The net sown area is 201 thousand hectares and gross cropped
area is 365 thousand hectares with cropping intensity of 182%.
•
The district has a wide variety of crops grown where major Rabi
crops in the region are Wheat, Mustard and Potato.
Jalandhar
- The
district lies at the 31º19'26.74" N latitude and 75º34'39.46" E
longitudes covering an area of 2,632 km2, according to the 2011
census Jalandhar district has a population of 2.1 million.
- Jalandhar falls under Trans-Gangetic
Plains Region Zone with an annual rainfall of 698.4 mm with the South
West Monsoon, North East Monsoon, Winter and Summer supply.
- The
net sown area is 237.6 thousand hectares and gross cropped area is 422.4
thousand hectares with cropping intensity of 178%.
- The
district has a wide variety of crops grown where major Rabi crops in the
region are Wheat and Potato.
- BKC’s
FASAL SALAH App is in service of all over the states in India. A unique
and AI based advanced technology where the farmers sends the geo-tagged
crop pictures of different crops for better advice. Farmers get advisories
based on variety sown, date of sowing and weather forecast of their
village. This App uses artificial intelligence for image processing of
farmers sent pictures and crop modelling analytics, which BKC has
established for calculation of area, yield and health of the crop well
before the harvest.
Weather
Outlook
Hoshiarpur
•
Normal rainfall
perceived in the month of November but it showing sudden down rainfall during
the month of December and January, whereas in the month of March depicts
average rainfall.
Jalandhar
•
Temperature
condition in the month of November and December is optimal while in the last
week of January minimum temperature sudden up, whereas from the first week of
February its continuously upturn.
•
Normal rainfall
perceived in the month of November but there is no rainfall witnessed during
the month of December, whereas there is no rainfall showing from the month of
February to March.
NORMALIZED
DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI):
•
NDVI values of
the current year are lagging behind than that of the previous year in all over
the district during the rabi season 2020-21.
•
NDVI value
depicts average condition with respect to the previous year during the rabi
season 2020-21.
•
NDVI values of
the current year are showing better that of the previous year in all over the
district during the rabi season 2020-21.
•
NDVI values of
the current year are lagging behind than that of the previous year in all over
the district during the rabi season 2020-21.
•
Normal crop
condition is seen throughout the district with respect to the previous year
during rabi season 2020-21.
SOIL MOISTURE:
•
All over the
district displays lower moisture content with respect to the previous year
during the month of Dec 2020.
- Soil
moisture demonstrates low moisture content in all over the district when
compared to the previous year in the month of January 2021.
•
Deficit soil
moisture content is depicted in the month of February in all over the district
in comparison to the year 2020.
•
All over the
district displays lower moisture content with respect to the previous year during
the month of Dec 2020.
•
Soil moisture
demonstrates low moisture content in all over the district when compared to the
previous year in the month of January 2021.
Deficit soil moisture content is depicted in
the month of February in all over the district in comparison to the year 2020.
Acreage
estimates of Hoshiarpur & Jalandhar:
Conclusion:
- Wheat is the
major crop grown in Hoshiarpur and Jalandhar district of Punjab following
by Potato crop during the Rabi season 2020-21 with crop area of 127878,
146796 and 16001, 23493 hectares respectively. Area of wheat crop in
current year showing slightly lower from 144000 and 170000 ha of 2018-19
by 11% and 13 % respectively. On the basis of NDVI crop health condition
of Hoshiarpur and Jalandhar district depicts normal condition with respect
to the year 2018-19 in rabi season 2020-21 and same scenario can be seen
in acreage estimation.
- Average crop
yield in Hoshiarpur and Jalandhar district for wheat and potato is approx.
55, 60 and 100, 93.5 quintals per hectare respectively. The crop is
calculated when the farmers gives their inputs during the crop
registrations in FASAL SALAH App i.e. date of sowing, soil, variety and
our crop modeler met-GIS runs in the backend and monitor the crop at every
stages throughout the crop cycle and predicts the crop yield before
harvesting.
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