Hi all, I'm writing to ask for pointers on Rice% and Millet% land-use data for all districts in India.
Currently, for rice, I have identified a potential source from the article "New district-level maps of rice cropping in India <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378429006000268#aep-article-footnote-id8>" that leads to the India Rice Cropping Maps <https://eos-earthdata.sr.unh.edu/data/data46.jsp> on EOS Earthdata <https://eos-earthdata.sr.unh.edu/data/>. According to the data guide <https://eos-earthdata.sr.unh.edu/data/dataGuides/india_crops_dg.pdf>, it provides specific data on plant rotation land use for both rice and millet from the late 1990s or early 2000s. *Question 1:* Can this source be reliably used for calculating both Rice% and Millet% given the coverage of millet as a crop type in the land rotation data? *Question 2:* Is there a more recent data source available for agricultural land use at the district level? Additionally, I have received a historical dataset titled "India Districts 1966.xlsx", which appears to be manually encoded from survey books found in a university library, and includes columns such as District1966, DistTotalRiceCultivatedArea1966, and TotalCultivatedArea1966. *Question 3:* Has anyone also come across this data, and know the actual source of it? *Question 4:* Does anyone know of a similar dataset that includes data on millet percentages from the 1960s or earlier? Thank you for any guidance or pointers you can provide. All the best, -Linfeng -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/8b0f8b92-9130-4cb4-af8c-aad4bf7cd1c2n%40googlegroups.com.
