Agriculture ministry gets nod for using drones for crop loss assessment

“Initially, drones can be used over agricultural areas of 100 districts of 10 states where gram panchayat level yield estimation will be required to calculate insurance claims,” said an agricultural ministry official. He said this will help in getting real-time estimates of crop yields accurately from villages, which speed up insurance claims.

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