Government to use satellite technology for crop and drought assessment

The government will also use Remote Sensing techniques to monitor and assess the drought situation in the country at national as well as state and district level.

"Methodologies for crop forecast and drought assessment developed by ISRO for selected crops and States are being transferred to the new Centre. This will help us taking timely decisions on procurement strategy as well as imports and exports of the commodities," said Harish Rawat, minister of state for agriculture and food processing industries in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha.