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Drones will fly over Karnataka to assess agricultural land, crops

TNN
August 9, 2018

Bengaluru, Aug 9: Soon, there will be drones flying over the fields of North Karnataka, as the state government turns to technology to estimate crop damage due to deficit rainfall in a quick, standardized and objective manner.

Agriculture minister N H Shivashankar Reddy on Wednesday said the department will be taking the assistance of drones for the first time to assess crop damage, although the previous Congress government had used the technology to survey agricultural lands in the state.

“The present survey is not able to throw light on agricultural lands and crops grown on them. Several RTCs show there are no crops grown at all on them. Building on the current survey which has been commissioned, we will use drones and applications to assess the land and existing crops on them,” said the minister.

Reddy said that per day, a single drone can assess about 1,000 acres of land. “And with this being the speed of assessment, we can cover the entire state’s agricultural lands in the next couple of months. This will help get the actual position of crops and land use,” said Reddy.

The minister said that at present, sowing in Karnataka has achieved 66% coverage. Of the targeted 74.69 lakh hectares, sowing is complete on 49.47 lakh hectares, with another 21.04 lakh hectares expected to be sown in the next two months.

“For the remaining 8.07 lakh hectares, we are preparing contingency plans,” said Reddy.

The minister said the government is also trying to replace water intensive trees like eucalyptus, and encourage people to replace them with bamboo. “We are looking to promote bamboo in a big way, considering the remuneration of approximately Rs 3.5lakh per hectare of bamboo within three years. The project will be taken up under the ‘bamboo mission’ of the central government,” he said.

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Naresh
 - 
Thursday, 9 Aug 2018

People can fool poor people duping as govt officials and they can do illegal things by using drones

Suresh
 - 
Thursday, 9 Aug 2018

How a common man can make out which authorised drone. May be this projct will raise more security threats

 

Danish
 - 
Thursday, 9 Aug 2018

So drones are legal in Karnataka? 

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May 3,2020

Bengaluru, May 3: Five more COVID-19 cases have been reported from Karnataka, taking the total number of coronavirus cases in the state to 606, the state government said on Sunday.

The total number of cases includes, 25 deaths and 282 discharged.

"Five new COVID-19 positive cases have been reported in Karnataka from 2nd May, 5 pm to 3rd May, 12 noon; taking the total number of positive cases to 606 which includes 25 deaths and 282 discharges," the government stated.

According to the statement, out of the five cases, three have been reported from Kalaburagi and two have been identified from Mudhol.

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May 27,2020

Bengaluru, May 27: A yet incomplete state-wide survey has revealed that there are over 53.99 lakh households vulnerable to the infection in Karnataka. The survey is being conducted by the government to find COVID-19 vulnerable population particularly with comorbidities and cases like SARI and ILI.

The survey, which is 67.16% complete so far, finds 1.37 lakh households across Karnataka have people with comorbid conditions, excluding a further 13,341 households with symptoms of Influenza Like Illness (ILI), Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) and Covid-19.

Over 48 lakh households have senior citizens, who on account of their age are at highest risk of death from the disease.

Munish Moudgil, Director of the State COVID War Room, clarified that households could have multiple types of vulnerable people. According to the survey data (which is dated May 26), Kalaburagi and Bengaluru Urban have the highest cases of SARI, ILI with 1,902 households and 1,703 households respectively, although these numbers are likely to rise, as the survey is still incomplete in these districts. 

A BBMP source said that 68% of the survey has been completed in the city, but the data has not been logged yet. The number of SARI/ILI cases is next highest in Shivamogga with 1,217 households, Mysuru with 1,200 and Davangere with 1,178.

The government regards SARI and ILI as indicators of coronavirus and on April 17, had passed an order instructing healthcare workers to test people with these conditions for the coronavirus. Consequently, 51 COVID-19 cases were discovered by testing people with these symptoms.

Belagavi, meantime, has reported the highest incidents of households with comorbid conditions with 12,427 identified so far, followed by Mandya with 9,289, Kalaburagi with 8,311, Shivamogga with 8,140 and Bengaluru Urban with 7,562. Importantly, 3,45,443 vulnerable people have been identified in Bengaluru Urban within 28.26% of data logged in so far.

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March 25,2020

Udupi, Mar 25: A 34-year-old man who returned from Dubai tested positive for novel coronavirus in Udupi district. This is the first case in the district. 

He returned from Dubai on March 18 and got admitted to a government hospital in Udupi on March 23 for fever. The swab samples were sent to Shivamogga laboratory for testing.

The report which arrived on Wednesday confirmed that he was positive for COVID-19, said DHO Dr Sudhir Chandra Sooda.

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