GIS Application in WBADMIP

                                                      

                 Natural catastrophes such as Droughts, floods, pest and diseases have plagued the agricultural community for centuries. Improvements have been made to insure the safety and gain of crops worldwide, but with poor farming knowledge such factors can bring havoc beyond repair.

Location of Batch I schemes

Geographic Information Systems are incredibly helpful in being able to map and project current and future fluctuations in precipitation, temperature, crop output, and more. By mapping geographic and geologic features of current (and potential) farmland scientists and farmers can work together to create more effective and efficient farming techniques; this could increase food production in parts of the world that are struggling to produce enough for the people around them. GIS can analyze soil data combined with historical farming practices to determine what the best crops to plant, are where they should go, and how to maintain soil nutrition levels to best benefit the plants.

Geographical Information System (GIS) has taken a vital role in ADMI Project right from selection of site up to post implementation impact assessment. Let us take a closer look how GIS is helping the project activities

         1.  Scheme site Selection:

                  One of the main objectives of the ADMI project is to convert the single crop land to multi crop by providing minor irrigation facility for the small and marginal farmers. GIS is a robust technology for superimposing all the different criteria layer-wise on a single platform to visualise and perform analysis. Satellite based remote sensing technique is used to mark the single cropped areas within the project area and then a polygon is created including those areas so that the project activities can be more focussed. Other local data such as Demographic, Administration, Soil, Elevation etc are also being analysed to validate other criteria for scheme site selection.

 In WBADMIP website one can get the following GIS based analysis on the Water Resources Planning Maps (District wise),

·                  Exact spatial distribution of the selected polygon

·                 Blocks, villages, Mouza falls within it

·                 Land use, Soil type, Elevation, contours

·                Sub or micro watershed

·               Catchment area of a particular location and characteristics of the catchment like maximum and minimum height, C –value etc

These data helps the district project staffs to prepare Scheme Development Management Plan based on which a scheme is given administrative approval.

    2. Monitoring Scheme progress status:

We can divide this section into part

·         Project Monitoring State wise

·         Project Monitoring Scheme wise

Agro climatic zones in West Bengal

       Project Monitoring State wise:-

•  In GIS platform, scheme locations can be viewed spatially and integration with MIS provide its attribute information.
•   Updated and dynamic map has been generated for      monitoring the schemes.
•  User can take printout in different format with all map element e.g. Map legend, scale etc.
• User can view different useful layers interactively in a single window.
• People can view the spatial and non-spatial data same time and perform various analyses and generate reports based on the analysis.(http://103.16.143.46/GISWEB/map1.htm)

                    Project Monitoring Scheme wise:-

·         ·    User can view plot wise detail of the schemes like owner name, gender, caste, type   of  crop practiced, type of land, no of beneficiaries, change in crop pattern etc.