India, Dec. 3 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
Space technology is extensively used in India for applications across various domains such as agriculture, disaster management, urban planning etc.
In the agriculture domain, the major applications developed include pre-harvest acreage & production estimation for major crops, mapping & assessment of horticulture crops, crop intensification for optimal utilization of post-kharif rice fallow areas under National Food Security Mission, drought monitoring & management, crop yield estimation under PMFBY scheme etc. Space technology utilisation is operationalised in MoA&FW with the establishment of Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre (MNCFC).
Similarly, satellite data is used...