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APEDA invites offers for crop survey for Basmati rice estimation, yield
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Tuesday, 18 July, 2017, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Ashwani Maindola, New Delhi
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The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) has invited offers for crop survey for estimation, assessment of acreage, crop health and yield of Basmati rice.
According to the notice issued by the authority, the field-based survey will be carried out on the basis of a sample group of farmers selected at the district level in seven geographical indication (GI) states, viz Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Western Uttar Pradesh and two districts in Jammu and Kashmir.
“The crop survey must be undertaken for estimation of crop area, crop health and projection, estimate of production and for survey during two Kharif seasons (i e Kharif 2017 and Kharif 2018) with detailed models and techniques to be used. They are required to be submitted in two separate envelopes,” it added.
The offer should reach the APEDA office by 3pm on July 26, 2017.
According to the eligibility criteria, the bidding firm should have minimum five years of experience to carry out field-based crop surveys undertaken for a trade body or government organisation in India.
The field-based survey would cover acreage estimation of all varieties of rice - Basmati, differentiated on the basis of traditional and evolved varieties, and Sharbati and Sugandha variants of non-Basmati rice. The reports will be submitted on a district-level basis for each state.
Said a senior APEDA functionary, “Five reports will be submitted for the months of August, September, October, November and December. The first report will be submitted by August 31, 2017 and August 31, 2018 in the respective years.”
“In case of unusual weather conditions, pest attacks or disease outbreaks affecting yields, a fortnightly report will be given during crop maturity time. The final report will contain crop-cutting estimation data, the post-arrival, post-harvest report in December and all statistics and maps,” said the official.
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