New Delhi, 13 Feb: A government committee has recommended setting up of National Crop Statistics Centre (NCSC) for meticulous data collection on diverse crops, in collaboration with the departments of Agriculture and Space.

Primary responsibility of NCSC will be to provide reliable and timely estimates at state and national levels of area under major crops, through complete enumeration of plots

New Delhi: Don

Efforts to boost agricultural productivity in the country must be seen in the context of climate change, a key agenda in the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2012-2017), said K.

The government has approved Rs 350 crore scheme to study impact of climate change on agriculture and reduce production losses.

Approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, the main objective of new plan scheme