Krishi Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC)

Context

Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare (MoA&FW) has inaugurated a Krishi Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) at Krishi Bhavan in New Delhi.

About Krishi ICCC

• The ICCC is a tech-based solution involving more than one IT applications and platforms, which is designed to assist in making informed decisions.
• The centre is housed in the MoA&FW, which is responsible for legislation, policy formation, and implementation of initiatives in the agriculture sector.
• The ICCC makes use of state of the art technology such as Artificial intelligence (AI), remote sensing, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to collect and process large amounts of granular data.
• The ICCC uses structures along with the Krishi Decision Support System (DSS) to collect micro-level data, process it, and present the macro picture.

Working of Krishi ICCC 

• The AI machine learning-based system will identify a farmer through his/ her mobile number or Aadhaar.
• Then, the system will match it with the farmer’s field data received by land records, historical crop sowing information from the crop registry, climate information from IMD, and so forth.
• It will then generate a customised advisory in the local language of the farmer. For this, the system will use the Bhashini platform that allows translation into several Indian languages.

Information provided by the Krishi ICCC 

• On 8 large, 55-inch LED screens established on the ICCC, where one could see information on –
  • Temperatures, rainfall, wind speed, crop yields, production, drought state of affairs, cropping styles (geographic region-wise and year-wise) and production estimations.
  • In graphical/ map, timeline, and drill-down format.
• One can also see –
  • The relevant trends (periodic and non-periodic), outliers, and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and
  • Receive insights, signals, and feedback on agriculture schemes, programmes, projects, and initiatives.
• If needed, farmer beneficiaries can have interaction directly with officials or the Minister through video conferencing facilities.

Significance of the ICCC

• The ICCC will enable complete monitoring of the agriculture sector by making available at one area geospatial data obtained from multiple sources, which includes –
• Remote sensing;
  • Plot-level records received through soil survey;
  • Weather information from the India Meteorological Department (IMD);
  • Sowing records from Digital Crop Survey;
  • Farmer-and farm-associated records from Krishi MApper (an application for geo-fencing and geo-tagging of land);
  • Market intelligence records from the Unified Portal for Agricultural Statistics (UPAg); and
  • Yield estimation facts from the General Crop Estimation Survey (GCES).
• The included visualisation of the information will permit quick and efficient decision-making.

Way ahead

• The ICCC ecosystem can be linked with the Kisan e-mitra, a chatbot advanced for PM-Kisan beneficiaries and
• Can create an ecosystem based on which individual farmer-level advisories can be generated.

Source: The Indian Express

UPSC Mains Practice Question

Q.Discuss the significance of the Krishi Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC). Also highlight the working of ICCC . (250 Words)

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