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CFCC (erstwhile National Crop Forcast Centre) was
created at the end of the year 1998 and was set up mainly with the
following functions:-
 Periodic crop forecasting for major crops, and
Co-ordination and assimilation of various methodologies and
technical advancement relating to
crop forecasting.
However, over the time, its sphere of
activities has been expended to:
Providing effective unified institutional framework
for the entire crop forecasting system in the country involving data
flow, assimilation, analysis and dissemination of statistics.
Periodic crop forecasting for major crops through
assimilation of information generated by the different
organizations such as IMD, National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast of
Ministry of Earth Sciences, Department of Space (DOS),
Central Statistics Office(CSO), Indian Agricultural Statistics
Research Institute (IASRI), Field Operations Division of the National
Sample Survey Organization (NSSO), the State Agriculture Statistics
Authorities (SASAs), State Agriculture
Departments etc.
Co-ordination and assimilation of various methodologies and
technical advancement relating to crop forecasting.
Central level monitoring of the
situation about crop, weather, supply of inputs, pests/diseases and
related aspects through the mechanism of Crop & Weather Watch Group
in the Department of Agriculture & Cooperation.
Coordinating the proposed projects/scheme on “Development
and Application of Extended Range Forecast System for Climate Risk
management in Agriculture (ERFS)” and “Forecasting of Agriculture
output using Space, Agro-meteorology and Land based observations
(FASAL)”.
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