ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Information Technology (MoIT) is developing a crop estimation and geographic mapping system (CEGMAS) to help improve the tobacco crop area (quantitative) and qualitative estimation process. Under a project expected to be completed next year, the CEGMAS is being developed to use state-of-the-art technology tools to acquire up-to-date crop acreage estimates and quality pallets of the tobacco crop in pilot regions of Shergarh (District Mardan) and Swabi – two of the most tobacco producing regions of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P). Sources at the National ICT Research and Development Fund said that the principal investigator organisation of the project is the University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar and the project would cost Rs25.5 million.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 2nd, 2015.
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