AGRICULTURE IN INDIAUdit Poddar

THE PROBLEMS IN AGRICULTURE IN INDIA

• High Rice and Wheat Production

• Extremely High Maternal Mortality, Infant Mortality Rates

• High Malnutrition

Of India’s population is under-nourished

15%194.6 million

India has a Pulse Problem

Agriculture production trends in India (million tonnes)

Rice Wheat Pulses

Irrigationavailability

High yielding disease resistant seeds

Crop rotation literacy

Accessibility to markets

Pulses need more water

Pulses are more susceptible to diseases

Training & educating farmers

Showcase the market to farmers

What can fix it?

HOW DO YOU SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS USING DATA?

1.26 bn

36States & UTs

677Districts

6000+Sub-districs

6 lac+Villages

INDIA IS A COMPLEX COUNTRY

& IS EXTREMELY DATA RICH

OPENPUBLIC

DATA

Number of land

holdings

Size of land

holdings

Dispersal of

operated area

Tenancy Status

Sources of

irrigation

Irrigation status

Cropping Intensity

Crops

Data Acquisition Data lying in government

servers

Agriculture CensusData and challenges

Data CurationSingle file for each

geography and crop

Input SurveyData and challenges

Data Acquisition Data lying in difficult government servers

Data CurationSingle file for each

geography and crop

Challenges and Solutions

Data CurationAvailable in PDF files or

poorly formatted multiple Excel files

• India’s population to cross China’s by 2022

• Population to grow up to 1.7b by 2050

• PDF parsing using image recognition

• Data cleaning using pattern recognition

• Scalable scripts for automating thousands of filesIntegrated Village wise Reports of disease

outbreak in IndiaBi-weekly

Challenges and Solutions

• India’s population to cross China’s by 2022

• Population to grow up to 1.7b by 2050

Data Stitching

• Phonetic Matching

• Fuzzy Logic Matches

15% The match we got the first time we matched Census Village Names to DISE Village Names

15

209 Final Indicators

Data Sources.31

2k+ variables

• India’s population to cross China’s by 2022

• Population to grow up to 1.7b by 2050

• India’s population to cross China’s by 2022

• Population to grow up to 1.7b by 2050

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