Fisheries and agricultural livestock remain important sources of food, nutrition, income, economic prosperity and livelihoods for people. The policy formulations for improvement of these sectors are mostly directed towards adoption of cutting edge technologies, and capacity building for sustainable development ensuring food and nutritional security, gainful employment and livelihoods, enhancement of economic prosperity and ecological health in the country. In line with above policy decisions, the present Web-GIS and Mobile Based Geo-Spatial Information System named as Fisheries and Animal Resources Mapping System(FARMS) has been developed by Odisha Space Applications Centre,

Science & Technology Department, Govt. of Odisha for the Fisheries and Animal Resources Development Department. Under this system, Spatial and Attribute data relating to all kinds of fisheries and animal resources/Assets will be generated using High Resolution Satellite Data and also by Mobile App and Web-GIS technology. Besides Geocoding/Geo-tagging of all the resources, assets will be embedded to the Web-Portal. The Portal is designed to provide information on the availability of resources and allied assets in any given part of the state.`