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Abstract
An approach to estimate cotton production at district level by estimating cotton acreage from IRS-IB multispectral data and predicting yield from meteorological data has been described. The meteorological data (fortnightly rainfall and climatic potential evapotranspiration) have been used to estimate fortnightly actual evapotranspiration (AET) using simplified soil moisture budgeting technique. Fortnightly AET values have been stepwise regressed with yield to get the final model which is used for yield prediction. Cotton acreage, yield and production have been estimated for the year 1992-93.