The 14 States covered under NADAMS are Andhra Pradesh,
Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh,
Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh.
The drought assessment for 14 States is carried out at District level.
However, out of these 14 States in 5 States (Andhra Pradesh, Haryana,
Karnataka, Maharashtra and Telangana) drought assessment is carried out at
Sub-District level.
The agriculture drought assessment and
monitoring, under NADAMS project, is carried out using multiple satellite data,
rainfall, soil moisture index, potential sowing area, irrigation percentage and
ground observations. A logical modeling approach is followed to classify
the districts into Alert, Watch and Normal during June, July and August and
Severe, Moderate and Mild drought conditions during September and
October. The monthly Drought Assessment Reports are communicated to all
concerned State and national level agencies and also kept on the MNCFC website
(www.ncfc.gov.in).
NADAMS
project provides an early assessment of drought situation and thus helps the
State Governments to take remedial measures and also use this information for
drought declaration. This way, the assessments provided by NADAMS Project are
beneficial for the farmers. But since the benefits accrued to farmers are
indirectly as a result of remedial measures taken by the State Governments, so
there is no system of collecting actual number of farmers benefited. Hence, no
such information is being maintained.
This information
was given by the Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri
Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya in Lok Sabha today.
SS(LS)
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