The Vaidyanathan Committee on agricultural statistics has recommended setting up of National Crop Statistics Centre, NCSC to provide reliable and timely estimates of area under major crops.The panel which submitted its report to Agriculture Secretary P K Basu has suggested radical restructuring of farm statistics in a phased manner to ensure objective, reliable and timely estimates of crop wise areas and yields. The Expert Committee was set up in 2009 to study a system of agricultural statisticsThe Report has called for putting in place an institutional arrangement that will provide data needed for monitoring agricultural trends and for policy making at the state and national levels.The Committee has also favoured expansion of the present remote sensing programme.