Timely Reporting Area (TRA) is a centrally sponsored scheme started in the year 1968-69 Government of Maharashtra is also implementing this scheme Jointly by Agri and Revenue Department to obtain reliable and timely estimates of area under principal crops in each season with breakup of area into irrigated / unirrigated, traditional and high yielding varieties of crops and also Land use statistics which is used for designing of crop estimation survey in 20% selected villages every year. This system Facilitates the frame for Crop Estimation Surveys