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Meghdoot—A Mobile App to Access Location-Specific Weather-Based Agro-Advisories Pan India

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Title Meghdoot—A Mobile App to Access Location-Specific Weather-Based Agro-Advisories Pan India
 
Creator Dhulipala, R K
Gogumalla, P
Rao, K P C
Palanisamy, R
Smith, A
Nagaraji, S
Rao, S A
Vishnoi, L
Singh, K K
Bhan, S C
Whitbread, A M
 
Subject Climate Change
Food Security
Digital Agriculture
 
Description Timely agricultural advisories to farmers can enhance their decision-making and reduce production risk under challenging weather conditions. To enhance access to relevant climate information services in India, a mobile application called Meghdoot was designed to deliver weather information and crop-specific advisories, as a joint initiative of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Indian Institution for Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). Building on IMD’s District Agrometeorological Advisory Service (DAAS) which issues crop-specific weather-based agro-advisories twice a week for all districts in India, the Meghdoot app makes available observed weather recordings, forecasts, and warnings generated by IMD and IITM. This working paper describes the concept design, the framework and a preliminary user analysis of the Meghdoot mobile application. Meghdoot mobile app is available on Google Play (Google Play Store) as well as Apple App Store. Since its inception more than two years ago, Meghdoot has received a good response with 200,000+ downloads/installs and an average rating of 3.3/5.0 by 863 app users (as of July 26, 2021) on Google Play(Google Play Store).
 
Publisher cgiar
 
Date 2021
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11917/1/WP370.pdf
Dhulipala, R K and Gogumalla, P and Rao, K P C and Palanisamy, R and Smith, A and Nagaraji, S and Rao, S A and Vishnoi, L and Singh, K K and Bhan, S C and Whitbread, A M (2021) Meghdoot—A Mobile App to Access Location-Specific Weather-Based Agro-Advisories Pan India. Working Paper. cgiar.