PROJECT NAME

GEOSPATIAL MONITORING OF MAJOR AND HIGH VALUE CROPS

PROJECT DIRECTOR NAME

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LOCATION

All Pakistan

SPONSORING AGENCY

Ministry of National Food Security and Research

EXECUTING AGENCY

Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO)

ORIGINAL COST

Rs. 129.609 Million

SCOPE

Satellite based area, yield and production estimation of crops

  1. Major crops (Wheat, rice, sugarcane and cotton): Area, Yield and Production
  2. Minor crops (mung bean, rapeseed mustard, chilies, citrus, banana and mango): R&D activities will be carried out for Pilot crops and pilot areas to develop crop discrimination, crop area estimation and yield forecasting techniques.

Capacity Building of stakeholders through:

  1. Strengthening of nucleus labs at Provincial Crop Reporting Services
  2. Trainings for all stakeholders

Sharing of Satellite based Information on crops with MNFS&R and other project stakeholders

  • Carried out satellite based estimations for Kharif crops: 2020-21 (Sugarcane, Rice and Cotton) and were shared with Economic Consultant, M/o NFS&R
  • Surveys were carried out in growing areas of Potato and Citrus for collection of ground referencing points. An R&D will be carried out to train the satellite remote sensing system for estimation of crops
  • Purchase orders of some project related items such as Workstations, Laptops, Camera, etc are in process.
  • Organized 05-Days training course on “ Geospatial Monitoring of Crop” from 14-18 December, 2020. Around 15 participants from different stakeholder departments of the project (i.e. Provincial Crop Reporting Services, Agriculture Departments, etc) were invited to this training course.

  • Satellite based system development for timely release of crops statistics
  • The stakeholder departments after attaining training in application of satellite in Crops Monitoring will be on a higher technology pedestal to carry out crop estimations
  • System will be available to relevant stakeholders for continuous information dissemination.
  • The system will help in improving working efficiency after completion of the project.

PROJECT DETAILS

Date of approval with Forum
Original date Revised Date, if any All subsequent Revisions if any
15.09.2020 N/A N/A
Financial Arrangement Federal
Donor (if any)along with a share of foreign aid in the cost N/A
Actual Date of Commencement 15.09.2020
Completion Date (as per PC-I) 30.06.2023
Likely Completion Date 30.06.2023
Reason of Time and Cost Overrun N/A
Specific decision/ recommendation made during previous quarterly reviews of PSDP 2019-20 NIL
PMES system updated on (please specify date) LastMonthly progress report has been entered for the months of December, 2020 on 07-01-2021
Financial progress
a) Expenditure up to June 2020 Rs. 3.984 million
b) %age Financial progress to-Date 6.8%
Physical completion (in %age terms) 10%
Allocation 2020-21 Rupee Foreign loan(if any)
20 million Nil
Releases 2020-21 Rupee Foreign Loan(if any)
20 million Nil
Expenditure/Utilization 2020-21 (July-Sept 2020) Rupee Foreign loan(if any)
19.221 million Nil
Bottlenecks/Issues impeding progress on the project (if any)
  • Funds transfer to PWD
  • Covid-19 disturbance
Latest implementation status of the decision/recommendation NIL