Online entries will highlight essential crop related details – its genes, variety, crop area, single crop or mixed plants.
Surveyors are assigned to visit fields will update details in online crop survey
Raipur, 13 September 2024/ Advancing towards digital public infrastructure, Chhattisgarh government introduced Digital Crop Survey in Balodabazar tehsil of Bhatapara district. Considering it as a farmer-centric move which could provide comprehensive data of the type of crops sown, their potential yield and modes of irrigations methods adopted across farms in the state.
The task of digitally surveying the crops will be performed by revenue officers and Patwari in agriculture fields. The private surveyors are assigned to visit the fields and generate digital survey of crops. The surveyors were recently trained in the fields of Janpad Panchayat Sabhakaksha of Balodabazar, wherein the survey and training was done in the fields covered under Girdawari scheme in Balodabazar region.
The vision of digital crop survey aims to create a single, verified source for farmer and crop data in the state, which can be utilized by multiple departments.
The process of digital crop survey includes creating a registry in the form of Geofenced plots, which can be geo tagged as well. The surveyor will visit fields and enter details of farmer’s crops and land digitally of 30 to 50 Khasras daily.
The online entries will show details of crops including genes, variety, which crop is sown and when is its harvest time along with actual yield details in form of photographic evidence of the crop.
Tehsildar and Patwari will obtain the online crop related data from the online application entered by the Surveyors. The App will highlight status of the plot, Khasra number, name of the area owner fed by the Surveyor. As per the rule, three photos of the crops and field will be uploaded with its longitude and latitude in the application.
The hierarchy of officials involved in digital crop survey includes Patwari’s role is of supervisor, the role of Revenue Inspector is of verifier while the role of Tehsildar and Naib Tehsildar is of investigating officer.
All online entries of crops and land Khasras which is entered in App by surveyors will be updated to Patwari, who will either approve or resend for correction. In case of rejection twice by Patwari, it will be forwarded to Revenue Inspector’s ID. The number of such Khasras is expected to be few, where verification will be done as per requirement and by visiting the spot.
The data in online application will not be saved until the total of the surveyed area is matching as per the geofenced area in the software. As per the protocol, the surveyor is directed to capture the picture 10 meters away from field’s boundary to avoid mismatching of latitude and longitude of the Khasra number. The picture cannot be capture by standing right on the boundary of any Khasra number of land, said officials.
If there is any mismatch of the details with picture of the crops by the surveyor then the Patwari will send back the data for correction to the surveyor. In case the Patwari rejects it, then it will be forwarded in the ID of revenue inspector.
Digital crop survey will be done in those villages where the second level work of geofencing has been completed. It will not be done in the Khasra numbers of all the villages. This is a multi-dimensional scheme of the government. The software is user-friendly and can be used in any version of Android mobile. Hence, Patwari and Revenue Officials in the district are trained to use the online application in phones.
