Assessment of irregularly bound areas across the fields is often carried out by agricultural officers in villages. The more reliable method used for this assessment is Simpson and Trapezoidal rules which are described here. The calculations involved in the assessment are complex, confusing, time consuming and not easily reproducible. Spreadsheet is a computer application in which data are arranged in rows and columns of a grid and can be manipulated and used in calculations. In today’s era of smart phones, tablet PCs and notebooks, where a spreadsheet program in the form of Microsoft Excel is readily accessible by most agricultural officers, it is be possible to adapt the various laborious steps involved in the said method to a spreadsheet program by writing simple logical codes in the spreadsheets to do the calculations in a simple, clear, faster, reproducible, accurate and user-friendly manner. This article describes a spreadsheet program (IrregArea Calc) to calculate the irregularly bound areas across the fields.
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