ISRO satellites forecast wheat production
ISRO, using satellite data and its CROP monitoring system, has estimated wheat production in eight major Indian states at 122.724 million tonnes for the 2024–25 Rabi season. As of March 31, wheat was sown over 330.8 lakh hectares. The data-driven model combines sowing dates, crop condition, and area to improve accuracy in national yield forecasting.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in a study using its satellites has estimated that the total wheat production from eight major wheat growing States of India would be 122.724 million tonnes as on March 31, 2025.
According to the space agency, the Comprehensive Remote Sensing Observation on Crop Progress (CROP), a semi-automated and scalable framework, developed by ISRO’s National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), enables the near real-time monitoring of crop sowing and harvesting during the Rabi season across India.
ISRO said that using this approach, the progress of wheat sown areas and the overall crop condition across Indian states were systematically assessed, using Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) remote sensing datasets from EOS-04 (RISAT-1A), EOS-06 (Oceansat-3), and Resourcesat-2A, for the Rabi season, 2024-25.
It said that the sowing progress of the wheat crop is being monitored across the eight major wheat-growing States of India during the 2024-25 Rabi season.
The eight major wheat-growing states are Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Bihar, Gujarat and Maharashtra.
It added that the spatial distribution of wheat crop, as of March 31 across the country is 330.8 lakh hectares.
“The wheat sown area derived from satellite data by March 31 stands at 330.8 lakh hectares, which is close to the statistics generated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (324.38 lakh hectares) as on February 4, 2025,” it added.
ISRO said that experimental assessment of wheat production, at the national scale, is done by assimilating satellite-derived parameters such as crop area, sowing date information, and in-season crop condition in a process-based crop growth simulation model at 5km × 5km spatial resolution.
“The multi-source data integration is expected to enhance the accuracy of production estimation at a finer spatial level, supporting precise and scalable estimation of Wheat production. The total wheat production from eight major wheat-growing states of India as on March 31 is estimated to be 122.724 million tonnes,” ISRO said.
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Source : The Hindu
