Major Projects
Welcome to Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre of Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers welfare, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India. The Centre, named after great Indian Statistician P. C. Mahalanobis has been established to operationalize the use of space and related technology for better agricultural forecasting and drought assessment. It was inaugurated on 23rd April, 2012 by Hon'ble Agriculture Minister.
The Centre has been established to provide in-season crop forecasts and assessment of drought situation using state of the art techniques and methodologies developed by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).