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The annual Excel AYP reports from Zambia have been added to CropSignal in the Reports Topic.

The “Advance Estimates”, “All India Crop Situation”, “Weekly Crop Weather Watch” and “NFSM Area Coverage Dashboard” reports from India have been updated to reflect changes in the India DAC websites. The PDFs/pages are indexed and searchable in the Reports Topic.

Monthly cotton arrivals data from India Textile Ministry has been added to the Crop Progress/Annual Crop Stats Topic. Data is stored as Production and converted using 170kg/bale unit.

We have updated the Lockup Tables to include a font size options to allow analysts to shrink the font size in exported Lockup Table documents (and an ‘auto’ option that chooses the best size based on available sources).

We have added a new Topic titled Preconfigured Widgets. You can find it in the Topics menu. The goals of this topic were: Simply choose a country and a crop from the filter list, then choose a widget from the … Continue reading →

A new boxplot chart type has been added to pivot widgets on the Annual Crop Stats Topic. The boxplot groups the y-axis data points for each x-axis point and groups them into a ‘box’ with whiskers for the low and … Continue reading →

You can now view indexed report contents (of web visible types, e.g. PDF, HTML, text) in embeddable widgets. In a reports index table, generated from the Reports topic, you can preview a report’s contents in a popup widget by clicking … Continue reading →

These charts can be created under the Annual Crop Stats topic. Choose: Expand the Widget Types and Options area, uncheck ‘Pivot’ and check ‘ONI Chart’ to generate charts like those below

You can now choose which layers you want to have visible (or selected but invisible) by default in GeoChronicles Bookmarks. Simply navigate to the GeoChronicles Bookmarks page (Tools -> GeoChronicles Bookmarks), and expand the ‘GeoChronicles Bookmark Layer Preferences’ table to … Continue reading →

You can now quickly view a popup chart containing relevant crop calendar data (if any) from the GeoChronicles Bookmarks page by clicking the new link for a bookmark from the ‘GDD Stage/Crop Calendar’ column.