Soil moisture, a key to better agricultural yield

Agriculture sector of Uttar Pradesh is the major contributor to the national food grain stock and is also the demographically broadest economic sector of the state.Soil moisture is one of the main parameters that influence crop health, monitoring which in near real-time is beneficial for farmers to adopt different agricultural practices for the betterment...

Estimating the likely impact on the price of agricultural produce

Price of any agricultural produce represents the equilibrium point where demand (i.e., buyers) and supply (i.e., sellers) meet in the marketplace. Newmarket information such as crop failure, widespread pest/disease outbreak, a major update to a previous crop production estimate, etc can alter the expectations of market participants and will lead to a new equilibrium...

How Satellites Are Making Agriculture More Efficient

Satyukt Analytics Pvt Ltd (Satyukt), an initiative by a pool of multidisciplinary technical professionals teamed up to deliver earth observation data at your doorstep. We have learned diverse agricultural challenges across the globe and believe the R&D of geospatial tools and technologies can successfully face them. But geospatial tools and technologies cannot be successful...

Estimating water budgets to determine the impact of changes in the land-use pattern

Water budget analyses is an approach that emphasis on the transport, storage, and utilization of water on the surface of the earth. Ensuring sustainable water supplies requires knowledge about the movement of water(hydrologic cycle). Water budgets are tools that water users and managers use to quantify the hydrologic cycle. A water budget accounts for...

Estimation of agricultural input requirement at farm scale

Agricultural inputs like fertilizers, water,etc, are components that are added to improve the growth of plants. If not in optimum amounts, these can do more harm than good. Sometimes a spatiotemporal variation of yield is observed even in the same field due to the variation in the physical and chemical properties of soil such...

Air Quality Index (AQI) after Diwali is “choking”: The National capital is gasping for fresh air

According to the central pollution control board, the country’s Air quality index is alarmingly high with a gauge reading of “Very Unhealthy” mostly in northern parts of the country. On November 7, the country celebrated “Diwali” by bursting crackers beyond the deadline set by the supreme court, most of the places of the country,...

On the day of “Karnataka Rajyotsava” let us step in to revive the agriculture of the state

First published on November 01, 2018 After the State was formed in 1956, the agricultural sector of the state went through several changes in terms of production, productivity and cropping pattern. Spatial variation in agriculture performance is observed throughout the Karnataka, as the state is characterized by non-uniform natural endowments which differ significantly across...