25 Years Research of AICRP on Agrometerology

Abstract

The All India Coordinated Research Project on Agrometeorology was initiated by ICAR in May 1983 with the establishment of Coordinating Cell at the Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad and 12 Cooperating Centres at various State Agricultural Universities. After a detailed review and evaluation on the progress made by the project and realizing the importance of agrometeorological research support for enhancing food production, ICAR had extended the Cooperating Centres to the remaining 13 Agricultural Universities of the country w.e.f. April 1995. The 25 Cooperating Centres of the AICRPAM network are: Akola, Anantapur, Anand, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Bijapur, Dapoli, Faizabad, Hisar, Jabalpur, Jorhat, Kanpur, Kovilpatti, Ludhiana, Mohanpur, Palampur, Parbhani, Raipur, Rakh Dhiansar (Chatha/Jammu), Ranchi, Ranichauri, Samastipur, Solapur, Thrissur and Udaipur. The Quinquennial Review Team has reviewed the research progress of the project in 1992, 1998-99, 2006 and 2011. In the latest QRT Report performance of the AICRPAM was adjudged as VeryGood. ◆ To study the agricultural climate in relation to crop planning and assessment of crop production potentials in different agroclimatic regions ◆ To establish crop-weather relationships for all the major rainfed and irrigated crops in different agroclimatic regions ◆ To evaluate different techniques of modification of crop micro-climate for improving the water use efficiency and productivity of the crops ◆To study the influence of weather on the incidence and spread of pests and diseases of field crops