ALL REPORTED RABI CROPS
3.43 lakh ha
Area sown by 16 Oct 2026, versus 4.65 lakh ha at the same point in 2025: 1.22 lakh ha lower.
Early-season area snapshot · not final area or production Ministry CWWG crop bulletin · 16 Oct 2026AgroConnect · Open collaboration
Build for the people behind our food.
Indian agriculture is not one problem or one climate. Explore state-by-state crop examples and technology questions, find a useful first task, and help shape AgroConnect with farmer needs in view.
Research is a starting point for questions—not a substitute for local farmer knowledge or agronomic advice.
FIELD NOTES / INDIA
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Crop examples to explore · not ranked
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Official Rabi sowing note · 16 Oct 2026
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Read the crop bulletinCWC reservoir region · 15 Oct 2026
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Read the reservoir bulletinIMD observed rainfall · bulletin issued 19 Oct 2026
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Read the IMD weather bulletinState/UT outlines: source-vintage map (primarily 2019), not a legal boundary reference. Crop examples are illustrative—not ranked or live data; validate with local sources.
01 / Dated official evidence
A field snapshot, not a live dashboard.
Figures below are transcribed from Government of India reports published in October 2026. Each comparison is date-matched where the source provides it; early-season sowing is not a yield forecast, and monitored reservoir storage is not a measure of water available to an individual farm.
RABI RICE
0.88 lakh ha
Reported area sown by 16 Oct, compared with 1.34 lakh ha on the same date in 2025. Sowing had commenced in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
Change at this snapshot: −0.46 lakh ha See crop table and reporting notesRABI OILSEEDS
2.29 lakh ha
Reported area sown by 16 Oct, compared with 3.11 lakh ha at the same point in 2025. The report lists mustard and groundnut sowing in Tamil Nadu.
Change at this snapshot: −0.82 lakh ha See crop table and reporting notes178 CWC-MONITORED RESERVOIRS
126.717 BCM
Live storage on 15 Oct 2026 was 68.58% of monitored capacity, 83.56% of normal storage, and 75.47% of the same-period level last year.
Reservoir sample · not a state-wide or farm-level water estimate CWC weekly reservoir bulletin · 15 Oct 2026| CWC region | Current | Normal for date | Interpretation from bulletin |
|---|---|---|---|
| North | 57.33% | 79.31% | Below normal |
| East | 79.89% | 80.84% | Below normal |
| West | 80.73% | 86.91% | Below normal |
| Central | 86.36% | 85.15% | Above normal |
| South | 44.31% | 77.54% | Below normal |
The Ministry’s crop bulletin reports that Rabi wheat sowing had not yet commenced by 16 Oct. That is a dated, early-season status—not evidence of a shortfall. Read the source bulletin for definitions, crop rows, and reporting caveats.
Dated IMD observation: the bulletin issued 19 Oct recorded 12 cm at Guna, Madhya Pradesh, during the 24 hours ending 05:30 IST that morning, and isolated heavy-to-very-heavy rain in West Madhya Pradesh. This is a past observation, not a current alert or forecast. Read the bulletin
02 / Regional lenses
Different places. Different constraints.
Choose a regional lens below. The state map above pairs crop examples with a technology question; these prompts are design hypotheses, not measured risks or agronomic advice. Conditions vary within every region.
NORTH / CENTRAL · WATER & WEATHER
Can advice arrive before the next stressful season?
Heat, rainfall variability, and water availability affect planting and crop-health decisions differently from district to district. How might a low-bandwidth tool combine timely forecasts with crop-specific, locally reviewed guidance?
Explore a build pathEAST / NORTHEAST · ACCESS & CONNECTIVITY
What still works when the signal does not?
Farm tools must fit varied connectivity, device, and language contexts. How can diagnosis, saved guidance, and retry flows stay understandable when a connection is slow or unavailable?
Explore a build pathCENTRAL / DECCAN · CROP HEALTH
Can a model explain uncertainty—not just name a disease?
Image-based predictions should be tested across crops, growth stages, lighting, and field conditions. How can AgroConnect show confidence, ask for a clearer image, and cite reviewed sources instead of overstating a diagnosis?
Explore a build pathACROSS REGIONS · TRUST & DECISION SUPPORT
Can farmers verify where a recommendation came from?
Crop and treatment advice needs provenance, clear limits, and local validation. How might a multilingual assistant show its sources and direct people to qualified local support when evidence is incomplete?
Explore a build pathNo discussion lens is tagged for this region yet. Choose “All lenses” to explore current ideas.
02 / Ways to build
Small, useful contributions count.
AgroConnect-PWA is a public starter project for crop-disease guidance. Pick an area that matches your skills—or help us ask better questions first.
Make the PWA resilient
Improve installability, offline flows, retry states, and performance on mobile connections.
Propose an offline improvementEvaluate crop-health guidance
Help document datasets, test model performance across conditions, and make prediction limits clear.
Propose an evaluation taskStrengthen RAG and sources
Improve retrieval, cite reviewed agriculture references, and define what the assistant should do when evidence is missing.
Propose a guidance taskLocalize and simplify
Explore language support, plain-language content, accessible controls, and inclusive field research.
Propose an accessibility taskBacklog status
Ideas are not live GitHub issues yet.
The repository contains a suggested backlog and contributor guide. Check the issue tracker before starting, and open a discussion if you want to shape a proposal.
03 / Open source workflow
Pick an idea. Build it together.
This portfolio does not ask for GitHub credentials. Issue and repository links open GitHub, where you can sign in, review the project, and submit your contribution directly.
04 / Further reading
Indian sources to check the context.
These are official Indian agriculture, weather, scheme, and market portals. The dated October 2026 figures above are static report snapshots, not live data feeds.
How to read this page
The map pairs 36 state/UT crop examples and technology prompts with official Rabi sowing notes where the Ministry bulletin names a state, plus a CWC reservoir-region comparison where that state is covered. A missing state note means only that the cited bulletin did not list one; it does not mean there was no sowing or water concern.
Research limit: the map’s crop examples are not yet reconciled state-by-state against a named official production year, so they are not rankings or measured local crop profiles. The page has no live crop statistics, market prices, weather alerts, scheme eligibility, or farmer-survey results. Validate product ideas with local farmers and extension experts.
- Weather: show the locality, issue time, and validity of an official advisory; do not present a state-level prompt as a forecast.
- Statistics and markets: keep crop year, market, commodity, units, and reporting date attached to every figure; early sowing area is not production.
- Schemes: link to official eligibility and application guidance; never imply that a user qualifies based on a map selection.
- Crop-health AI: expose uncertainty and source provenance, and provide a path to local expert review.
State and union-territory boundary geometry is redistributed under the upstream MIT license; see map attribution and source vintage. The boundaries are not authoritative legal determinations. Crop examples and problem statements are discussion prompts—not current production rankings, risk data, or a substitute for farmer and agronomist validation.