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

    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.

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    Global Research Program - Resilient Farm and Food Systems

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    The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support given by the Earth System Science Organization of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India for the Monsoon Mission II grant IITM/MM-II/ICRISAT/2018/IND-11 (climate services for better risk management and building resilience of smallholder farmers in the highly vulnerable rainfed areas of India) led by ICRISAT. The ICRISAT co-authors acknowledge the salary support from the CGIAR Research Programs on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) South Asia team, carried out with support from the CGIAR Trust Fund

    Abstract

    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).

    Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
    Divisions: Global Research Program - Resilient Farm and Food Systems
    CRP: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
    Series Name: CGSpace
    Uncontrolled Keywords: Food security, Agriculture, Climate change, Agrometeorological advisories, District-wise, Climate services information, Digital agriculture
    Subjects: Others > Climate Change
    Others > Food Security
    Others > Digital Agriculture
    Depositing User: Mr Arun S
    Date Deposited: 12 Nov 2021 05:16
    Last Modified: 12 Nov 2021 08:51
    URI: http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/11917
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