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GIS Anchored Integrated Plantation Management : Tea
Alokesh Ghosh
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
Kolkata Centre
Plot – E2/1, Block – GP
Sector – V, Salt Lake
Kolkata – 700 091
Ph: (033) 2357 9846,5989,3580
Fax: (033) 2357 5141
E-mail: alokesh.ghosh@erdcical.org
Abstract:
Tea is one of the most important and highest foreign exchange earning agricultural product of India. The Indian states of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, North Bengal (Darjeeling) and Sikkim contribute significantly to the overall tea production in the country. Tea is also grown in Southern part of the country such as Tamilnadu, Karnataka and Kerala. Total Tea cultivation area is approximately 0.45 million ha. There are three major varieties of tea produced world wide such as Orthodox, CTC & Green Tea. India mainly produces Black Tea whereas Green Tea is very popular in Japan, Taiwan, China etc. India produces 850 million Kgs of Tea annually, which is 30% of world production (Annual world production 2800 million Kgs.). For last couple of years, due to rapid changes in global economic scenario, globalisation of Indian economy, breaking of USSR and increasing presence of countries like Kenya, Indonesia, SriLanka etc. in global export market, Indian tea industry is under recession. Consequently average price realized per Kg of Tea by Indian Industries decreasing steadily.
Industry and Government has realized that there is immediate need to modernize the tea production process to make it globally competitive. In addition, producers’ objective is to manage tea estates to maximize profits. Therefore, the overall objective of this project is to identify suitable strategic land use development plan and to introduce precision farming to maximize profitability. The strength of IT in the form of GIS & ERP solution is expected to give excellent result towards achieving this goal.
The objectives of this proposed work could be summarized as:
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To develop a GIS anchored web enabled Decision Support System (DSS) for Tea Enterprises.
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Introduction of the concept of Precision farming.
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User-friendly IT Framework for collection of reliable spatio-temporal data.
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Efficient and smart ERP package for decision support at all levels for better management & profitability.
The following areas will be addressed in the proposed work:
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Generation of Digital Map of the entire Estate
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Generation of Landuse/ Landcover map
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Irrigation & Drainage planning
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Agro-Practices
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Soil & Fertility Mapping
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Other Important Attribute Data Collection & Analysis
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ERP Implementation
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Customisation of Field Instrumentation
The goal of this work is to develop a package which will lead to a Decision Support System (DSS) where record of almost every individual tea plant and all corners of the field will be documented and management will be able to take proper decision at proper time with the help of this package at the expense of a mouse click.
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