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Impact of Weather based Agro-Advisory Services on Upliftment of
Farming Communities of Ramanathapuram District, Tamil Nadu
M. Vengateswari, S. Vallal Kannan, P.Balasubramaniyan and K. Elanchezhyan
Krishi vigyan kendra, Ramanathapuram
ramnadkvk@tnau.ac.in
Agromet Advisory Services (AAS) plays a vital role in Agriculture and allied activities by
providing valuable information about all agricultural operations from land preparation to postharvesting
operations with respect to prevailing weather conditions. About 66% of crop
production is influenced by Agrometeorological factors. Accuracy-based forecasts will help
farmers to overcome various types of losses in agriculture and allied activities (Praveen et al,
2022). The main aim of AAS is to reduce the losses in agriculture and to increase the income
level of farmers through accurate forecasts and the intervention of new technologies in
agriculture. The farmers utilize the services of AAS to decide and follow the timely cultivation
practices which in turn facilitated to obtain an increase in crop yield as well as reduced losses
due to unfavorable situations. The present study was proposed to analyze the knowledge
acquired and the level of impact of weather-based agro advisory services among the farmers
on knowledge and productivity achievement.
Methodology
India Meteorological Department has taken up the Biweekly Agromet advisory service (AAS)
based on medium-range forecasting to serve the farming community with important weather
parameters like rainfall, temperature, wind speed and direction, cloud cover, and humidity.
District AgroMet Unit, Ramanathapuram which is functional at Krishi Vigyan Kendra,
Ramanathapuram is receiving the forecast since 2019 and issuing agro advisory bulletins
through different media to assist the farmers. A random sample of 125 farmers was selected
from different blocks of Ramanathapuram District for assessed the farmer´s knowledge and
perception of agromet advisory services. Descriptive statistics was employed to find out the
frequency and percentage of farmer on adoption of advisory on crop production and tabular
analysis for impact study.
Institutional and policy innovations for accelerated and enhanced impacts
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