{"id":123356,"date":"2021-08-04T18:06:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T12:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=123356"},"modified":"2021-08-04T18:06:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T12:36:34","slug":"agro-automatic-weather-stations-provide-exact-weather-forecast-to-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/agro-automatic-weather-stations-provide-exact-weather-forecast-to-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Agro-Automatic Weather Stations provide exact weather forecast to farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1741806\"><strong>PIB<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The Union Minister of Earth Science has said that 200 Agro-Automatic Weather Stations(AWS) are being installed under Gramin Krishi Mausam Sewa(GKMS) scheme.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About Gramin Krishi Mausam Sewa(GKMS) Scheme:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gramin Krishi Mausam Sewa(GKMS) scheme<\/strong> is an initiative of the Ministry of Earth Science.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Under the scheme,<\/strong> the India Meteorological Department(IMD) in collaboration with State Agricultural Universities\/Indian Council of Agricultural Research are issuing <strong>crop and location-specific weather based agro advisories<\/strong> to the farmers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>These Agromet Advisories<\/strong> are prepared and communicated by the Agromet Field Units(AMFUs) located in the Krishi Vigyan Kendras(KVKs) to the farmers on every Tuesday and Friday.\n<ul>\n<li>Agriculture meteorology (Agromet) is a branch of meteorology that examines the effects and impacts of weather and climate on crops, rangeland, livestock, and various agricultural operations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Moreover<\/strong>, IMD also monitors rainfall situations &amp; weather aberrations and issues alerts &amp; warnings to the farmers from time to time under the scheme.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Significance of this Scheme:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Agromet advisories <\/strong>help farmers to make decisions on day-to-day agricultural operations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>This can help further optimize the application<\/strong> of input resources at the farm level during deficient rainfall situations and extreme weather events to reduce monetary loss and maximize crop yield.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>About Meghdoot App:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Meghdoot <\/strong>is a mobile app launched by the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim<\/strong>: It aims to help the farmers to get the weather information including alerts and related agromet advisories specific to their districts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: PIB What is the News? The Union Minister of Earth Science has said that 200 Agro-Automatic Weather Stations(AWS) are being installed under Gramin Krishi Mausam Sewa(GKMS) scheme. About Gramin Krishi Mausam Sewa(GKMS) Scheme: Gramin Krishi Mausam Sewa(GKMS) scheme is an initiative of the Ministry of Earth Science. Under the scheme, the India Meteorological Department(IMD)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/agro-automatic-weather-stations-provide-exact-weather-forecast-to-farmers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Agro-Automatic Weather Stations provide exact weather forecast to farmers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}