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The Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (CPCRI) and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) person taken up a collaborative aviator task to make methodologies to cipher the country nether coconut and measure the grade of Yellow Leaf Disease (YLD) successful arecanut plantations.
The CPCRI astatine Kasaragod, Kerala, has tied up with the Regional Remote Sensing Centre of ISRO, Bengaluru, and the Aerial Services and Digital Mapping part of ISRO, Hyderabad, to implicit the project.
Referring to the coconut sector, K. Balachandra Hebbar, Director, CPCRI, told The Hindu, “We person information connected the country nether coconut. Its crushed truthing volition person to beryllium done by processing a methodology nether the aviator project. This portion of survey nether the task is yet to instrumentality off.”
With respect to the YLD component, Mr. Hebbar said that the study, which has begun successful Sullia taluk of Dakshina Kannada, volition beryllium done successful some YLD-hit areas and non-YLD areas. Once the methodology is developed, it volition assistance study, utilizing distant sensing technology, whether YLD is spreading successful arecanut plantations and to which extent.
Mr. Hebbar said that since the task is simply a aviator one, each country nether coconut and YLD-hit arecanut areas volition not beryllium assessed now. The studies volition beryllium done successful identified areas.
Meanwhile, Captain Brijesh Chowta, Member of Parliament, Dakshina Kannada, said successful a connection that a drone survey relating to the YLD constituent has commenced successful Aranthodu and Peraje villages of Sullia Taluk connected a 2.5 sq. km area.
Capt. Chowta said that a delegation of Ministers and Lok Sabha members from Karnataka held a gathering with Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shivraj Singh Chouhan successful Delhi successful August 2025 and discussed the issues faced by arecanut growers successful the State. They besides demanded funds for probe connected arecanut diseases and apprised the Minister of the problems faced by arecanut growers whose plantations person been deed by YLD and leafage spot disease. The delegation further demanded that a broad technological survey should beryllium conducted and remedies related to diseases successful arecanut should beryllium provided.
