Vol. 7, Issue 4 (2019)
Weather based agro-met advisory for sustaining maize yield in central plain zone of Uttar Pradesh
Author(s): Naushad Khan, Ajay Kumar, CB Singh, Karam Hushan and Vijay Dubey
Abstract: Weather plays a dominant role in year to year fluctuation in crop production, both in rainfed or irrigation agriculture, weather information plays a major role during crop season and if provided in advance can be helpful in inspiring the farmer to organize and activate their own resources in order to reap the maximum benefits. Farm losses can be minimized to a considerable amount by making adjustments of agricultural operations through accurate weather forecasts. National Innovation on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) Project running under the Department of Agronomy, C.S Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur adopted two villages, 30 farmers in each village have been selected for providing weather based agro-met advisory (AAS) to the door step of farmers by SRF and FIF of the project. The program was implemented in the period 2014-15 in village Saibasu and Daleep Nagar under the district in Kanpur Dehat, Uttar Pradesh. The results indicated that agro-met advisory (AAS) adopted farmers were able to reduce their input cost by utilization of AAS bulletins in real time. By the use of AAS bulletins they were able to manipulate the cultural practices, irrigation scheduling and fertilizers scheduling, weedicides and pesticides application as per expected weather conditions prevailed during crop period. In quantitative terms, it was observed that the AAS adopted farmers were able to reduce their input cost by 17 and 9 per-cent under the village Daleep Nagar and Saibasu, respectively as compared to non AAS farmers. It is also observed that the AAS farmers yield was increased by almost 5.0% and 14.0% of village Daleep Nagar and Saibasu, respectively as compared to non AAS farmers.
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Naushad Khan, Ajay Kumar, CB Singh, Karam Hushan, Vijay Dubey. Weather based agro-met advisory for sustaining maize yield in central plain zone of Uttar Pradesh. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(4):263-268.
