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UPCATET PG / M. Sc. Agriculture

 

App/Portal

Developed By

Function

Mausam App

IMD

Real-time weather and rainfall updates

Meghdoot App

IMD & ICAR

Agro-Advisory for farmers

Damini App

IITM Pune

Lightning alert

Kisan Suvidha App

MoA&FW

Weather, market, pest information

Agromet Data Portal

IMD

Historical weather data for analysis

 

Institutions Involved in Agricultural Meteorology

Institution

Function

IMD (Indian Meteorological Department)

Forecasting and data collection

ICAR (Indian Council of Agricultural Research)

Research in Agrometeorology

IITM (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology), Pune

Climate modeling

CRIDA (Hyderabad)

Dryland research and weather-based farming

NBSS & LUP (Nagpur)

Agro-ecological zoning and soil mapping

NAARM & IARI (Delhi)

Research on climate-resilient agriculture

 

Important Facts and Figures 

Topic

Fact

IMD established

1875

HQ of IMD

New Delhi

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Founded in 1950 (HQ: Geneva)

World Meteorological Day

March 23

Normal annual rainfall of India

118 cm

Solar constant

2 cal/cm²/min or 1367 W/m²

Earth’s average albedo

30%

Normal lapse rate

6.5°C per km

Tropopause height at equator

16–18 km

Wettest place on Earth

Mawsynram (~11,872 mm/year)

Arid zone rainfall

<500 mm/year

Humid zone rainfall

>1500 mm/year

Optimum temp for photosynthesis

25–30°C

Relative humidity conducive for disease

>80%

Optimum temp for rice

25–32°C

Optimum temp for wheat

15–25°C

First agrometeorological observatory in India

Pune (1905)

Evaporation measurement

Class-A Pan Evaporimeter

Solar radiation instrument

Pyranometer

Wind speed instrument

Anemometer

Rainfall measurement

Symons Rain Gauge

 

  1. Father of Agricultural Meteorology – Angot (France)
  2. IMD Headquarters – New Delhi
  3. Standard height of Stevenson’s screen – 25 m
  4. Standard time of rainfall measurement in India – 08:30 hrs IST
  5. Instrument to measure sunshine duration – Campbell-Stokes Sunshine Recorder
  6. Instrument for wind speed – Anemometer
  7. Base temperature for wheat – 5°C
  8. Albedo of crop canopy – 20–25%
  9. Base temperature for rice – 10°C
  10. Average annual rainfall in India – 1200 mm

 

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