The presentation is about "Agrometeorology", how it is different from "Meteorology", it's different aspects in crop production, It's future scope. It also discusses about the agromet advisory services provided by the government.

1. AGROMETEOROLOGY AND
IT’S IMPORTANCE IN CROP
PRODUCTION
V S ANU KRISHNA
B.SC(Hons) Agriculture
BHU,Varanasi

2. METEOROLOGY
 “A branch of physics of the earth dealing with physical processes in the
atmosphere that produce weather.”
 “The study of weather.”
AGROMETEOROLOGY
“A branch of applied meteorology which investigates the responses of
crops to the physical conditions of the environment”.
 “An applied science which deals with the relationship between
weather/climatic conditions and agricultural production”.

3.  Branch of atmospheric physics .  Branch of applied meteorology.
 It aims at weather forecasting.
 It aims at improving quantity and quality of
crop production through meteorological
skills.
 It is linking science to the society.
 It is linking science to the farming
community.
Meteorology Agrometeorology

4. Crop management
and crop monitoring
Importance Of Agrometeorology
Crop planning for
sustainable
production
Crop modeling and
yield-climate
relationship

5. Reducing losses of
applied chemicals
and fertilizers
Managing weather
abnormalities
Selection of sowing
dates for optimum
crop yields

6. Climate change and crop productivity
SOURCE : ICRISAT,2009

7. Future Scope
To study climatic resources of a given area for
effective crop planning.
To evolve weather based effective farm
operations.
To study the relationship between weather
factors and incidence of pests and diseases of
various crops.
To prepare crop weather diagrams and crop
weather calendars.
To investigate the influence of weather in
protected environment.
To study the influence of weather on soil
environment on which the crop is grown.
 Experiment on crop-weather
relationship for cauliflower and mustard

8. AgroMet Advisory Service (AAS) deals with extension
Agrometeorology.
 “all agrometeorological
and agro-climatological information that can be directly
applied to improve and/or protect the livelihood of farmers”
(ICAR-CRIDA).
To optimize the resource use under
changing climatic condition.
To provide the valuable information about all
agricultural operations and weather
forecasted information.
To improve agriculture productivity despite
local climatic variations.
To minimize the loss due to
harsh/aberrant weather conditions
Objectives of AAS
AgroMet Advisory
Service(AAS)

10. Weather has a significant impact on crop growth
and development. Thus, the study of
agrometeorology helps in improving the quality
and quantity of crop production. Negative
impacts of climatic change can also be minimized
by it. Further, the awareness on weather based
agro-advisories will support farmers on decision
making and reduce the crop risk.
Conclusion

11. Thank you!