Powering up Nutritious Food Production in India with Spatial Solutions

Abstract

In India the demand of nutritional food grains continues to rise while the total area of arable land is not expected to increase significantly An example of untapped opportunity lies in the potential use of cropfallows such as ricefallows These cropfallows are very dynamic in nature travelling year by year across landscapes mostly driven by monsoon climate but also by human intervention such as economic agronomic and cultural practices The implementation of a digital open access decision system able to provide timely information on the arable land area would facilitate the development of appropriate intervention packages optimizing land management and boosting production