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Status of AGROMET Advisories being given to the Farmers in India

August 6, 2016, 7:17 am
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Ministry of Earth Science04-August, 2016 18:58 IST
Status of AGROMET Advisories being given to the Farmers in India
Shri Y.S. Chowdary, Minister of State for the Ministry of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, in a written reply to a Question in Rajya Sabha today, informed the House that the Gramin Krishi Mausam Sewa (GKMS) of India Meteorological Department (IMD) is successful in providing the crop specific advisories to the farmers through different print/visual/Radio/ IT based media including short message service (SMS) and Interactive Voice Response Service (IVRS) facilitating for appropriate field level actions. Efforts are continuously being made to expand the participation and outreach to allfarmers under GKMS scheme.

Detailing the current status of the scheme, the Minister informed that crop specific advisories under GKMS, through Agriculture Field Monitoring Unit (AFMU),are rendered twice a weekin collaboration with State Agricultural Universities (SAUs), institutions of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), IITs etc. Such advisories are formulated based on district level weather forecast for next 5-days in respect of: 
·         Rainfall
·         Maximum temperature, minimum temperature
·         Wind speed, wind direction
·         Relative humidity and cloud cover
·         Weekly cumulative rainfall forecast

Further, Shri Chowdary, in his reply, noted that weather forecast based agrometeorological advisories are disseminated in vernacular language through Kisan portal launched by the Ministry of Agriculture and also under public private partnership. At present, the GKMS products are disseminated through SMS and IVRS to 19.1 million farmers in the country.

State wise details of number of farmers receiving AGROMET Advisories through SMS during July 2015 & July 2016are given below:

State Name
Number of farmers receiving SMS through Kisan Portal -July 2015
Number of farmers receiving SMS through Kisan Portal-July 2016
ANDHRA PRADESH
109200
143091
ASSAM
33475
24240
BIHAR
453330
676325
GUJARAT
214660
154747
HARYANA
265339
339253
HIMACHAL PRADESH
15556
541634
JAMMU AND KASHMIR
19376
4817
KARNATAKA
151244
218808
KERALA
468190
373240
MADHYA PRADESH
519936
232328
MAHARASHTRA
2088203
4928562
MANIPUR
797
184
MEGHALAYA
923
987
MIZORAM
0
1831
NAGALAND
1965
2539
ODISHA
113133
156168
PUNJAB
123530
136526
RAJASTHAN
185625
221473
TAMIL NADU
754498
709317
TRIPURA
3723
4389
UTTAR PRADESH
1287475
852112
UTTARAKHAND
75456
80587
WEST BENGAL
123611
389440
CHATTISGARH
1292293
1366443
JHARKAND
535812
748535
A AND N ISLANDS
1234
2056
ARUNACHAL PRADESH
308
450
DELHI
3725
1926
PUDUCHERRY
3167
23538
TELANGANA
78270
82294
SIKKIM
2

Total
8924056
12417840
SMS sent by AMFUs through NIC and other services
130198
129961
Reliance Foundation
17000
2639919
SMS by Private companies under PPP mode
2407853
3912280
Grand Total
11.5 million
19.1 million
                                   
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