Department of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, Govt of Meghalaya in collaboration with North East Space Application Centre (NESAC) has completed a GIS web portal “Meghalaya Rice Information System” (MeRIS) which is now LIVE at this link www.apps.nesdr.gov.in/mris/index.html
The GIS portal presents an online spatial database for the Rice Ecosystem in the state, which was created through analysis of geo spatial satellite imagery and presented in 1:10,000 scale. High resolution satellite imagery was also used like Indian LISS IV, COMSAT foreign satellite to analyse the data followed by ground truth validation.
The District Wise Rice Maps provides a tool for precision planning, decision support and better targeting of Rice development in the State in a very scientific and objective manner.
This project is implemented by Agriculture Information & IT Wing, Directorate of Agriculture under the Meghalaya State Rice Mission.
About MeRIS
Meghalaya Rice Information System encompasses all relevant information on Rice growing areas in the state. One can interactively search, visualize, navigate and analyze on rice grown areas. Further, it has all relevant information on Soil Fertility map with details on its nutrients, Rice Ecosytem, Soil information, Slope, Horticulture. Information on villages along with road network etc are also provided to assess the connectivity to villages adopting rice farms etc. MeRIS has map analytics for selective visualization of areas on the map based on on-click graphical queries. It also has other tools for distance/area measurement or printing of maps etc. Desired information in the form of report may be printed.
What you can do with MeRIS
- Interactive Exploration of all the relevant maps of rice information in a single-window platform for effective decision making for rice growing areas and its future expansion.
- Uses latest web technology for analysing the data and retrieve valuable information.
- Adopts user-friendly, simplistic yet powerful graphical query based for visualisation of statistical information.
- Can generate grid-wise reports on soil fertility, horticulture and other important parameters for resource planning.
- Added selectable multiple satellite base maps for easy interpretability of the overlayed information.
- Inbuilt GIS tools for map analysis, print and export.
A big milestones has been achieved., which shall benefits the farmers and planners. A pride for Meghalaya as a whole.
Kudos Department of Agriculture.
We should carry the rice in rural area in to the high quality….