Weather based Agro advisory Research Programs in ICAR

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1 Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture Santosh Nagar, Hyderabad G.G.S.N.RAO,V.U.M. RAO and A.V.M.S.RAO Weather based Agro advisory Research Programs in ICAR

2 Importance of Agro advisory services Inspite of technological developments for the last few decades, Indian agriculture is still rain dependent Increased activity of the extreme weather events such as - Drought Cold wave Heat wave Increased temperatures during rabi and Deficit rainfall in many parts of the country during Excess rains in 2005 (100cm in Mumbai, floods in MP, Gujarat, Orissa, AP, Tamilnadu and Karnataka) effected the food grain production Thus timely and accurate weather based agro advisories is the need of the hour for sustainable agricultural production

3 Weather based Agro-advisories - Role in enhancing productivity Effective dissemination of Advisories to Farmers, leads to Creating awareness across larger farming community on the importance of weather-based agriculture management Making farmers to adapt weather-based advisories enables a. Increasing the quality and quantity of produce b. Efficient utilization of resources c. Minimizing losses due to adverse weather d. Effective utilization of favourable weather events e. Reducing cost of cultivation to enhance profits

4 / Websites Rural hubs & call centers

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7 Agrometeorological Research in ICAR Agrometeorological research were initiated under ICAR in mid 60s at CAZRI, Jodhpur and IARI, New Delhi Post Graduate teaching in Agrometeorology started at IARI, New Delhi As per National Commission of Agriculture (1976), Departments of Agrometeorology started functioning at few State Agricultural Universities The All India Coordinated Research Project on Agrometeorology (AICRPAM) started functioning at CRIDA, Hyderabad from Initially started with 12 cooperating centres during VII plan period (1985) and later extended to 13 more centres in VIII plan period covering all SAUs in the country All the 25 centers of AICRPAM are issuing weather based agro advisories since 1994 Many ICAR institutes now carrying research on agro meteorological impacts on crops, livestock, horticulture etc.

8 Current status of weather based agro advisories 25 centres of AICRPAM 107 field units of NCMRWF Regional agro advisories by IMD State level Coordination Committees (SAUs, Dept. of Agriculture, Regional meteorological centres) Crop weather watch group at the National level Call centres and Krishi channel (ICAR, ANGRAU) Dissemination of agro advisories through website ( IT enabled e-sagu (IIIT-CRIDA)

9 Agroadvisory services in ICAR NCMRWF IMD AICRPAM Centers and SAUs Contingency planning ICAR Website Agromet advisories AICRPAM Crop-weather outlook World Wide Web Agromet Databank

10 The Efficiency of Agro advisories depends on: Availability of up-to-date information on crop conditions Reliability of forecasts issued by NCMRWF Knowledge on crop-weather relationships Adaptation of technologies for the anticipated changes in weather Farmers capabilities to carryout timely operations as mentioned in the AAB Infrastructural facilities to carryout the operations by the farmers

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12 Scientist Farmer Interaction Conducted short courses on agro advisory services at Project Coordinating Unit, CRIDA, Hyderabad (July 2004) AICRPAM - Hisar Centre (November 2004) AICRPAM Jabalpur Centre (October 2005) Short Courses

13 Research Projects of importance in Agro advisories operated at AICRPAM Coordinating unit are Near real-time monitoring of agrometeorological conditions for contingency planning in Andhra Pradesh (RRPS-32) Integrated National Agricultural Resources Information System (INARIS) New Approaches to Integrated Pest Management in Rainfed Rice Based Production Systems (RRPS-22) Development of weather based forewarning systems for crop pests and diseases (MM-III-17) Utilization of Agro climatic information for agromet advisories (DST Funded) In Operation

14 Website Development Launching of dynamic website by Hon ble Minister of Agriculture, Shri Rajnath Singh on July 30, 2003 Exclusively for dissemination of Agro Advisories

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26 3 day forecast from MM5 model : Meteorology and Oceanography, Visakhapatnam to UTC rainfall (mm) Temperature (K) Wind (m/sec) to UTC rainfall (mm) Temperature (K) Wind (m/sec) to UTC rainfall (mm) Temperature (K) Wind (m/sec)

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28 Consortium approach Pilot Program (AP State) Agriculture Information Dissemination System IIIT Domain Knowledge (IT) CRIDA Domain Knowledge (Agriculture) ICRISAT Domain Knowledge (Agriculture & IT) ANGRAU Domain Knowledge (Agriculture) NCMRWF Domain Knowledge (Weather)

29 Advisories in Regional Languages Telugu

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32 Weekly Soil Moisture (SMI %) Monitoring SMI

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34 Dissemination of reliable information is the key to success for better agro-advisories Call Centres maintained by various Agricultural Universities/Governments e-sagu concept put forwarded by IIIT, Hyderabad Virtual University initiated by MSS Foundation Establishment of 70,000 rural hubs by ICT Ministry Agro-advisory issued through KVKs TV / Print Media / Fax / Mobile Phones

35 Agromet Advisories - Issues in Agricultural Management The approach The common goal of minimizing the risks in agriculture and increasing the income of farming community, cannot be achieved by single agency. Scientists, NGOs, extension agencies, media, agricultural officers and planners should cooperate and work synergistically for implementing agromet advisory services so as to minimize the risk to agriculture and to achieve sustainable production Consortium approach Research Institutes, Line Dept., NGOs, Industrial Establishments, ICT, Extn. Agencies

36 Future Research Programme of ICAR and AICRPAM Agro advisories Development of weather based operational agrometeorological models for use in agromet advisories Assess the impacts of climatic variability and change on agricultural production system To prepare contingent plans for management of weather hazards like, droughts, floods, frost, heat and cold waves etc., Improving the effectiveness and awareness of agro advisories through utilization of Information Technology, establishment of call centres and publishing in local language news papers Facilitating linkages of network of Agroadvisory websites with other regional and national partners in a consortium mode Providing support to National Weather Watch of the Ministry of Agriculture (DARE and DAC) and Science and Technology (DST, NCMRWF and IMD)

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