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Weather extremes in Island Agro-climatic Region

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Title Weather extremes in Island Agro-climatic Region
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Creator Velmurugan, A.
Chattopadhay, N.
Kundu, A.
Balasubramanian, R.
Swarnam, T.P.
Subramani, T.
Zamir Ahmed, S.K.
Kiruba Sankar, R.
Singh, P.K.
Zakaria George
Biswas, T.K.
 
Subject Weather extremes
Agro-climatic Region
Decision making
Advisory
 
Description Not Available
Information on soil, water, crop production and protection, livestock
management, weather parameters etc. are vital for agricultural planning and
enhancing production in the islands. Managing the risk associated with climate
variability or vagaries of weather is integral to any comprehensive strategy for
adapting agriculture and food systems to a changing climate. Accurate information
on weather particularly occurrence of flood and moisture stress and suitable
advisories on various aspects of agriculture based on current weather offer great
potential to help farmer decision-making process in the face of increasing uncertainty,
improve management of climate-related agricultural risk, and help farmers adapt
to change. In addition, providing weather based agricultural advisories at district
level will be immensely helpful to the farmers to know the recent crop production
methods/ techniques, plant protection measures, input management in addition to
best practices in livestock farming and aquaculture.
This is very much pertinent to Andaman and Nicobar Islands located in the
remotest part of the country. The location, crop and livestock specific farm-level
advisories as well as descriptions of prevailing weather, soil and crop conditions,
and suggestions for taking appropriate measures will minimize losses and optimize
inputs in the form of irrigation, fertilizer or pesticides. Therefore, location-specific
weather forecasts in the medium range hold greater potential for tailoring content
and format to farm-level decision-making, more particularly, for resource poor and
tribal farmers. Since June 2008, CIARI in collaboration with agromet division of
IMD, Pune has helped the island farmers in timely operation and efficient use of
available resources through its widely circulated agromet advisory services. In
addition, the institute has greatly improved and expanded its services to provide
agro-meteorological information to all the stakeholders through the internet and
mobile based applications.
Agrimet Division, India Meteorological Department, Pune
 
Date 2018-11-10T05:17:32Z
2018-11-10T05:17:32Z
2017-11-01
 
Type Technical Bulletin
 
Identifier Velmurugan, A., Chattopadhay, N., Kundu, A., Balasubramanian, R., Swarnam, T.P., Subramani, T., Zamir Ahmed, S.K., Kiruba Sankar, R., Singh, P.K., Zakaria George and Biswas, T.K. (2017). Weather extremes in Island Agro-climatic Region : Informed decision making through agromet advisory services, Technical bulletin, GKMS/NRM/TB-03, CIARI, Port Blair, India, p54
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/10181
 
Language English
 
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Publisher AGROMET FIELD UNIT, ICAR-CIARI, Port Blair