{"id":230932,"date":"2023-03-14T20:01:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T14:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=230932"},"modified":"2023-03-14T20:01:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T14:31:16","slug":"agrometeorological-advisory-services-aas-being-rendered-for-the-benefit-of-farmers-in-the-country-under-the-gramin-krishi-mausam-sewagkms-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/agrometeorological-advisory-services-aas-being-rendered-for-the-benefit-of-farmers-in-the-country-under-the-gramin-krishi-mausam-sewagkms-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Agrometeorological Advisory Services (AAS) being rendered for the benefit of farmers in the country under the \u2018Gramin Krishi Mausam Sewa\u2019(GKMS) scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Agrometeorological Advisory Services (AAS) being rendered for the benefit of farmers in the country under the \u2018Gramin Krishi Mausam Sewa\u2019(GKMS) scheme<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>PIB <\/b>on <b>14th March 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change has informed Lok Sabha that the Government of India stands committed to address the challenges of climate change and has taken many steps through various Ministries, Departments, States and Union Territories.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the steps taken by the Government to address challenges from Climate Change?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>NAPCC:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Government of India is implementing several programmes and schemes through relevant Ministries and States including the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/climate-change\/#851_National_Action_Plan_on_Climate_Change_NAPCC\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC).<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Flood Forecasting on International &amp; Interstate Rivers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is formulated and issued by the Central Water Commission (CWC) as short-range forecasting and five day\u2019s advance flood advisory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Gramin Krishi Mausam Sewa(GKMS):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> India Meteorological Department, Ministry of Earth Sciences in collaboration with Indian Council of Agriculture Research(ICAR) and other institutions is rendering District\/Block level Agrometeorological Advisory Services(AAS) for the benefit of farmers in the country under the scheme Gramin Krishi Mausam Sewa(GKMS).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Per Drop More Crop scheme<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare is implementing the Per Drop More Crop scheme. It mainly focuses on water use efficiency at farm level through Micro Irrigation (Drip and Sprinkler Irrigation System).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Rainfed Area Development(RAD) Programme under <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answeredgive-an-account-on-different-strategies-for-implementation-of-national-mission-for-sustainable-agriculture\/\"><b>National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture(NMSA)<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It focuses on Integrated Farming System (IFS) for enhancing productivity and minimizing risks associated with climatic variability. Under this system, crops\/cropping system is integrated with activities like horticulture, livestock, fishery, agroforestry, apiculture etc. This will enable farmers in maximizing farm returns for sustaining livelihood, and also to mitigate the impacts of drought, flood or other extreme weather events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-innovations-in-climate-resilient-agriculturenicra-2\/#:~:text=Aim%3A%20The%20project%20aims%20to,fisheries%20and%20natural%20resource%20management.\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Integrated Coastal Zone Management project(ICZMP)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The government of India has implemented ICZMP that has contributed, inter-alia, mapping of hazard line, Eco-sensitive Area, Sediment cell for the entire coastline of India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cAgrometeorological Advisory Services (AAS) being rendered for the benefit of farmers in the country under the \u2018Gramin Krishi Mausam Sewa\u2019(GKMS) scheme\u201d published in PIB on 14th March 2023 What is the News? The Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change has informed Lok Sabha that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/agrometeorological-advisory-services-aas-being-rendered-for-the-benefit-of-farmers-in-the-country-under-the-gramin-krishi-mausam-sewagkms-scheme\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Agrometeorological Advisory Services (AAS) being rendered for the benefit of farmers in the country under the \u2018Gramin Krishi Mausam Sewa\u2019(GKMS) scheme<\/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":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-230932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230932","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=230932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}