Shri Y.S. Chowdary, Minister of State
for the Ministry of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, in a written
reply to a Question in Rajya Sabha today, informed the House that the Gramin
Krishi Mausam Sewa (GKMS) of India
Meteorological Department (IMD) is
successful in providing the crop specific advisories to the farmers through
different print/visual/Radio/ IT based media including short message service (SMS) and Interactive Voice Response Service (IVRS) facilitating for appropriate field level actions.
Efforts are continuously being made to expand the participation and
outreach to all farmers under GKMS scheme.
Detailing the current status
of the scheme, the Minister informed that crop specific advisories under GKMS, through
Agriculture Field Monitoring Unit (AFMU), are rendered twice a week in collaboration
with State Agricultural Universities (SAUs),
institutions of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), IITs etc. Such advisories are formulated
based on district level weather forecast for next 5-days
in respect of:
·
Rainfall
·
Maximum
temperature, minimum temperature
·
Wind
speed, wind direction
·
Relative
humidity and cloud cover
·
Weekly
cumulative rainfall forecast
Further, Shri Chowdary, in his reply,
noted that weather forecast based agro meteorological
advisories are disseminated in vernacular language through Kisan portal
launched by the Ministry of Agriculture and also under public private
partnership. At present, the GKMS products are
disseminated through SMS and IVRS to 19.1 million farmers in
the country.
State wise details of number of farmers receiving
AGROMET Advisories through SMS during July 2015 & July 2016are given below:
|
State
Name
|
Number
of farmers receiving SMS through Kisan Portal -July 2015
|
Number
of farmers receiving SMS through Kisan Portal-July 2016
|
|
ANDHRA PRADESH
|
109200
|
143091
|
|
ASSAM
|
33475
|
24240
|
|
BIHAR
|
453330
|
676325
|
|
GUJARAT
|
214660
|
154747
|
|
HARYANA
|
265339
|
339253
|
|
HIMACHAL PRADESH
|
15556
|
541634
|
|
JAMMU AND KASHMIR
|
19376
|
4817
|
|
KARNATAKA
|
151244
|
218808
|
|
KERALA
|
468190
|
373240
|
|
MADHYA PRADESH
|
519936
|
232328
|
|
MAHARASHTRA
|
2088203
|
4928562
|
|
MANIPUR
|
797
|
184
|
|
MEGHALAYA
|
923
|
987
|
|
MIZORAM
|
0
|
1831
|
|
NAGALAND
|
1965
|
2539
|
|
ODISHA
|
113133
|
156168
|
|
PUNJAB
|
123530
|
136526
|
|
RAJASTHAN
|
185625
|
221473
|
|
TAMIL NADU
|
754498
|
709317
|
|
TRIPURA
|
3723
|
4389
|
|
UTTAR PRADESH
|
1287475
|
852112
|
|
UTTARAKHAND
|
75456
|
80587
|
|
WEST BENGAL
|
123611
|
389440
|
|
CHATTISGARH
|
1292293
|
1366443
|
|
JHARKAND
|
535812
|
748535
|
|
A AND N ISLANDS
|
1234
|
2056
|
|
ARUNACHAL PRADESH
|
308
|
450
|
|
DELHI
|
3725
|
1926
|
|
PUDUCHERRY
|
3167
|
23538
|
|
TELANGANA
|
78270
|
82294
|
|
SIKKIM
|
2
|
|
|
Total
|
8924056
|
12417840
|
|
SMS sent by AMFUs through NIC and other services
|
130198
|
129961
|
|
Reliance Foundation
|
17000
|
2639919
|
|
SMS by Private companies under PPP mode
|
2407853
|
3912280
|
|
Grand Total
|
11.5 million
|
19.1 million
|
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