Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services

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2. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Providing Information On FORECASTED WEATHER & AGRO-MET ADVISORIES Software Requirements Specifications (SRS)(NIC-SRS Version 1.0)April 2012National Informatics Centre Services Inc.Department of Information TechnologyMinistry of Communications & Information TechnologyGovernment of India NIC

3. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services • The Department of Agriculture and Cooperation (DAC), Ministry of Agriculture has decided to implement National e-Governance Programme (NeGP) in the Agricultural Sector as a Mission Mode Project (A-MMP), covering Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. • The A-MMP also aims to address the needs of the farming community and its other related stakeholders, through provision of weather advisory information and services through the various delivery channels available in their vicinity for assisting them in making rational decision. NIC

4. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services • Mission Objectives • District level information with Agro Climatic and National Agricultural Research Project (NARP) nomenclature of zone distributions • Dissemination of information on Forecasted Weather by IMD • Agro-Met Advisory (Maharashtra Model of Customized SMS based advisories to be adopted) • District Level advisories available at present to be used for dissemination • A strong Feedback mechanism/ Help Desk to be developed so as to capture the observations of the farmers and improve upon the Advisories accordingly • Dissemination in vernacular medium • Transfer advisories and related information to NIC to be ported on portal • Advisory Bulletins to farmers and stakeholders regarding weather sensitive agricultural operations to mitigate weather based risk on crop cultivation • Advisories on Forecasted Weather, Variety Selection, Field Selection, Sowing Time, Crop Health and Agro-met Advisory to be provided by experts at the State and National Level NIC

5. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services • Mission Objectives • SMS Alerts on • Weather Forecast • Impact on Crop, • Impact on livestock • Impact on fisheries • Study of Existing Automation of Meteorological Bulletin for Disseminating the following • Forecast based on IMD 5 Day Medium Range data • Early Warning System (EWS) on natural calamities • Dissemination over SMS/ e-mail/ Web (G2F & G2C) • Actual Weather Summary based on Daily Weather Data • Dissemination of Agro-Met Advisories • Content from Domain Experts at Central/State/ AMFU & KVKs, • with Early Warning System (EWS) on Pest/Disease infestation. • Dissemination over SMS/ e-mail/ Web (G2F) • Grievance management through multiple service delivery channels to the farmers NIC

6. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Goal • Automated process e-alert/warning • Creation of infrastructure facilities • Provide G2G, G2C, G2B ,G2E services NIC

7. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Service Details NIC

8. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services What is SRS & Why it is required ? . NIC

9. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services 1. Master Data Management Functional Requirements. 2. Forecast Weather Summary 3. Information on Agro Met Bulletin 4. Information about historical & forecasted weather Functional requirements capture the intended behaviour of the system - or what the system will do. This behaviour may be expressed as services, tasks or functions the system is required to perform 5. Alerts/SMS on forecasted weather & Natural Calamities 6. Grievance redressal management 7. Expert advisory system 8. SMS based crop-weather alerts 9. Training schedules 10. Agro meteorological advisory services

10. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Non Functional Requirements. • Product requirements • Requirements which specify that the delivered product must behave in a particular way e.g. execution speed, reliability, etc. • Define system properties and constraints e.g. reliability, response time and storage requirements. Constraints are I/O device capability, system representations, user- friendliness, performance levels, response rates, quality standards , robustness, portability, reliability and • maintainability Organizational requirements Requirements which are a consequence of organizational policies and procedures e.g. process standards used, implementation requirements, etc. External requirements Requirements which arise from factors which are external to the system and its development process e.g. interoperability requirements, legislative requirements, etc NIC

11. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Who are the users of this system ? • The stakeholders of the system, who interact with the system to accomplish their tasks. • A user may be any entity that is interested in the services offered by the system. Different users have different expectations of the system behavior, and all these combined together constitute the overall system requirements Financial Gateway (bank) System Dealer/ farmer NeGPA system Non Govt Central Govt State Govt. NIC NIC

12. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Stakeholders • Ministry of Earth Science • Indian Meteorological Department(IMD) • National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast(NCMRWF) • Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) • Indian Council of Agricultural Research(ICAR) • Central Research Institute for Dry land Agriculture (CRIDA) • KrishiVignanKendras(KVKs) • Ministry of Agriculture • Department of Agriculture and Cooperation • Crop Weather Watch Group • Department of Animal Husbandry Dairying and Fisheries • Cooperative Departments • Department of Space • Central/State Agricultural Universities, Colleges and Research Institutes NIC

13. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Stakeholders • Non Government Organisations • Farmers Training Centres • Farmers Clubs and • Farmers Field Schools • NGOs / Self Help Groups • Private Sector Companies • Akshaya, NYK, Farm Clubs, Kudumbashre, KILA NIC

14. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Stakeholders • State and District Departments • Department of Agriculture • State Agricultural Management and Extension Training Institutes (SAMETIs) • State Remote Sensing Application Centre • ATMA(District Level) • Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying • Department of Fisheries • District Administration • Revenue Department • Block /panchayat level Agriculture / Vet./ fisheries Officers • Cooperative Departments • Media • PWD, Irrigation, Hydroelectric, Port, telegraphs, Railway and Community NIC

15. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Stakeholders • Farmer Centric organisations and other Departments • Farmers Training Centres(agriculture, fishermen, livestock) • Farmers Clubs • Farmers Field Schools • NGOs / Self Help Groups • Private Sector Companies NIC

16. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Services Transaction based Information on weather forecast Work flow based Content based NIC

17. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Services • Common Service Centres • KrishiVigyan Kendra (KVKs), MVK • Agri clinics / Agri Business centres, Private kiosks • SUWIDHA Centres • Departmental Offices • Extension workers • State Agricultural Universities • Agriculture Colleges • Research Organisations • NGOs active in Agricultural Sector • SMS (pull/Push), • Email alerts Transaction based Information on Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisories Work flow based Content based NIC

18. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Services • (IVRS) • Kisan Call Centres (KCC) • State Call Centres (SCC) • Online (web based service) • Mass media(TV, Radio, • Newspapers) • Print Media (Pamphlets, • Gazettes, Notifications etc. • Advertisement • Postal Services • Gram Panchayats • Dashboard / Digital Notice • Board • Farmers Training Centres, • ATIS Transaction based Information on Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisories Work flow based Content based NIC

19. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Services • Master data management • Agro-ecological regions/sub-regions • Farmers , Agro Climatic Parameters • Weather Summary , Forecast Summary • (http://tripuraicar.gov.in/agromet.html) to be customised for All India) • Collecting Rainfall data (India • Meteorological Department/Automatic Weather Stations/Rain gages / other sources) • Impact on Crop, Livestock, Agriculture etc. Transaction based Information on Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisories Work flow based Content based NIC

20. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services • Actual weather details • Forecasted weather details • Fertilizer and manure application, scheduling of cultural operations • Agro-met Advisories based on forecasted weather on • Crop Variety Selection, • Crop field selection • Sowing Time, Crop Health • harvest, post harvest, • preventive measures on pest , disease forecast. • Agriculture operation, livestock management activities Services Transaction based Information on Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisories Work flow based Content based NIC

21. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Services Transaction based Information on Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisories • GIS - Mapping of location • with resources • Expert advisory • Grievance management Work flow based Content based NIC

22. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Service Component to Application mapping NIC

23. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Service Component to Application mapping NIC

24. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Service Component to Application mapping NIC

25. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Service Component to Application mapping NIC

26. Transaction based Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Service Component to Application mapping NIC

27. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services As – is System NIC

28. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Agro-meteorological Advisory Services in the Country – An AS-IS-Situation Scenario National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF of IMD Forecast On Tuesdays & Fridays 30 ICAR 615 KVK 100 NICRA 130 AMFU (975) centres • ICAR • All India Coordinated Research Project in Agro-Meteorology(AICRPAM) of CRIDA, ICAR : 30 Centres in Regional Research Stations and Centre for Agro-Met Research in SAUs/SVUs, for Location-specific weather forecast anytime when Farmers wants; • All India Coordinated Research Project in Dryland Agriculture (AICRPDA) of CRIDA, ICAR : through ICAR Institutions and SAUs; • Krishi Vigyan Kendras (615), one in each district, of ICAR; • National Initiative in Climatic Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) Centres –100 Centres (100 proposed); • District level Contingency Plan for Weather vagaries in India; • IMD • Integrated Agromet Advisory Services (IAAS) through 130 Agro-Meteorological Field Units (AMFUs), located in SAUs/Regional Research Stations; Involvement of Private / Public Sectors to strengthen IAAS, through MOU; Involvement of IITs, IITs, IISc, NITs, State / Central Universities, etc; • E-AGROMET : ICT enabled Agro-met Advisory services through IIIT, Hyderabad(Automating Advisory preparation using Date warehousing/data mining techniques etc) • Block level IAAS in pilot scale; • Gramin Krishi Mousam Sewa during 12th Five Year Plan; FARMER NIC

29. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services AFMU role in the chain of operation Forecast from IMD, New Delhi State Met Centers Agro-met Advisory Bulletin by AMFUs Farmer / End User NIC

30. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Observational network for agro-met services NIC

31. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Observational network for agro-met services Agro-met Division of IMD maintains different agro-met observatories, for agro meteorological, evaporation, soil moisture, evapo transpiration, dew fall and desert locust monitoring. At present, there were 219agro meteorological observatories, 42 ET and 43 soil moisture observatories, 49 evaporation observatories and 80dewfall observatories. 559stations from all over the country. Besides Agro AWS at 500+ places is installed all over the country and the data is being received in DCP, Pune regularly. Scrutiny of CWS, SM, ET and dew data has been done up to year 2009. NIC

32. 1. Existing Information Flow hierarchy between various organisations with respect to Weather Forecasting and Agro-met Advisories Ministry of Earth sciences (Government of India) • NCMRWF – National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast. • Department of Agriculture and cooperation. • Central Crop Weather Watch Group. • ICAR R&D inputs. • Media • Department of Space. • Department of Information Technology. IMD Agro-met Services State Department of Agriculture State Meteorological Centre (23) IMD State Crop Weather Watch Groups 1. Drought Monitoring Centre. 2. State Remote Sensing Application Centre. 3. KVKs and NGOs. Agro-meteorological field units(127),Agro climatic zones(15), SAUs, ICAR institutions District level Agriculture extension setup with DACExt/ATMA Extension Directorates Local Media/ NGOs Block Level (BDO) farm input management NGOs and KVKs Village Level(CSC and DIT) NIC

33. Block District / Sub District Receive rainfall Data from Blocks , Compile and Send to Directorate Directorate Compile and analyze Data to be used for planning Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Universities, Research Institutes, Krishi Vigyan Kendras and other stakeholders 3. Information Flow for collection of actual weather Block 33

34. Met Data Captured by Meteorological Centre( IMD) from Dept. of Space/Automatic Weather Stations Data sent to AMFUs located at Ranchi,Dumka,East Singhbhum. AMFU Analyses data and Prepares advisory. Advisory is sent every Tuesday and Friday to Deputy Director, Agriculture (DDA), Krishi Vigyan Kendra, KRIBHCO, University,NGO’s , ATMA Deputy Director, Agriculture(DDA) acts on advisory through its agencies. KVK also acts on advisory by displaying in display board and Mass Media Service 4 Information on Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisories 4. Information Flow for weather forecast 34

35. Realtime Weather forecast by IMD Preparation of Guided Agromet Bulletin (GAAB) Potential Weather Forecast Types eAgromet: Repository of PABs Preparation of RAAB Delivery of RAB to Stakeholders Feedback through stakeholders and field visits by scientists Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services 5. E-Agromet project , Kerala • The e-Agromet system is an ICT-enabled agromet advisory preparation system. • Based on the potential weather types, the Guided Agromet Advisory (GAABs) are • prepared in e-Agromet software system. • The e-Agromet software system takes real-time weather forecast received from • IMDand produces corresponding GAAB as an output. • In the proposed system, the Real-time Agromet Advisory Bulletin (RAAB) is • prepared by retrieving the corresponding GAAB from e-Agromet. After retrieving • GAAB, the expert team prepares the corresponding RAAB by deliberating the crop • and weather dynamics. • The feedback from the expert team is stored back into e-Agromet system.The • RAABs are disseminated to the stakeholders. Also, feedback is collected which is • entered into the e-Agromet

36. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services 6. EWS-Alappuzha , Kerala EWS is a people-centered disaster warning mechanism that will function for the fishing community who are easily vulnerable to natural calamities. A facility to offer mobile access to fisher folk. Provides day to day possible disaster information to fishermen through SMS (voice message in their language). The key partner to implement this project is the Revenue Department Disaster control room in collaboration with NGOs and Grama Panchayats of the coastal areas, the Meteorological Department, BSNL etc. The technical assistance is provided by National Informatics Centre. The District Administration provides the overall regulatory and coordination framework, other organizations can network and provide expertise to achieve the objectives of the project. The objective is to have a sustainable program in place to provide an SMS and email alerts on a possible disaster and most importantly early warning dissemination throughout the district. NIC

37. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services 6. EWS-Alapuzha , Kerala • How ? • On line registration of stakeholders • Activation of accounts by District Administrators • Information delivery as SMS / voice message in their language , E-mail NIC

38. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services 7. Services provided by IMD – HQ in tie up with state IMD stations. Which in turn with Dept. of fisheries, Dept. fo Animal Husbandry, Irrigation etc a. Area Cyclone Warning Centres(ACWC) and the Cyclone Warning Centres (CWC) of IMD  are responsible for cyclone forecasting in the Bay of Bengal and  Arabian Sea - the National Cyclone Warning Centre at New Delhi being the coordinator. Computerised Operational Advisory Forecasts on cyclone movements are being issued by the Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) division of the Department at the H.Q., New Delhi   NIC

39. Service 4 Information on Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisories 7. Services provided by IMD – HQ in tie up with state IMD stations. Which in turn with Dept. of fisheries, Dept. fo Animal Husbandry, Irrigation etc b. Area Cyclone Warning Centres (ACWC )Issues four stage warnings on Cyclone alert & Cyclone warning, in case of a system striking the coast or near the coast and  port & fisheries warnings and heavy rainfall warnings for various agencies.    After receipt of pre-cyclone watch bulletin issued by HQ, ACWC/CWC will monitor issue of warnings under two stage warning system- Cyclone Alert and Cyclone Warning. NIC

40. Service 4 Information on Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisories 7. Services provided by IMD – HQ in tie up with state IMD stations. Which in turn with Dept. of fisheries, Dept. fo Animal Husbandry, Irrigation etc C. Cyclone Alert - the first stage warning: This is issued 48 hrs. in advance of the commencement of adverse weather, to Collector of coastal districts and the Chief Secretary of the concerned maritime state.  After issue of alert message for broadcast, the concerned AIRs are to be requested to maintain round the clock watch to receive & broadcast the subsequent numbered bulletins. NIC

41. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services 7. Services provided by IMD – HQ in tie up with state IMD stations. Which in turn with Dept. of fisheries, Dept. fo Animal Husbandry, Irrigation etc d.Cyclone warning – the second stage warning:  This is issued 24 hrs. in advance of the commencement of adverse weather.  Subsequent to this warning, any other crucial warning is being sent more frequently to all the concerned recipients (Collectors & Chief Secretaries), if the storm is tracked by radar with a high degree of confidence. These recipients will be informed that subsequent warning on the storm will be broadcast by AIR stations.  NIC

42. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services 7. Services provided by IMD – HQ in tie up with state IMD stations. Which in turn with Dept. of fisheries, Dept. fo Animal Husbandry, Irrigation etc d.Cyclone warning – fourth stage warning:  Post Landfall Outlook (PLO) meant for Interior districts issued 12 hrs. before the estimated landfall of the storm in order to bring to the notice of the Collectors of interior districts about their area likely to be affected by cyclone NIC

43. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services 7. Services provided by IMD – HQ in tie up with state IMD stations. Which in turn with Dept. of fisheries, Dept. fo Animal Husbandry, Irrigation etc e. Fisheries Warnings When wind speed over sea area is expected to exceed 45 kmph in the sea area up to 75 Nautical miles from the coast,  wind warnings are issued and communicated to the Director of Fisheries, all Dy. Directors of Fisheries and Director of Ports through fax/SMS through VPN connection, advising fisherman to be cautious while venturing into the sea.  NIC

44. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services 7. Services provided by IMD – HQ in tie up with state IMD stations. Which in turn with Dept. of fisheries, Dept. fo Animal Husbandry, Irrigation etc. f. Heavy rainfall warnings  When rainfall amount is expected to exceed 7 cm, heavy rainfall warnings are issued to District Collectors and various agencies, such as public services, PWD, Irrigation, Hydroelectric, Port, telegraphs, Railway and Community Project Officials, so that the disaster management machinery can be kept in readiness NIC

45. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services 7. Services provided by IMD – HQ in tie up with state IMD stations. Which in turn with Dept. of fisheries, Dept. fo Animal Husbandry, Irrigation etc f. Heavy rainfall warnings  During cyclone (tsunami) depressions , the dept. Of fisheries receives information from cyclone warning centre Vishakapatanam through phone or SMS after receipt of the warning district fisheries officials shall communicate the message to the field level officers (FDO) and request them to communicate the same to the fishermen . Depending on the intensity, the fishermen are made alert not to venture into the sea. The fishermen village heads are informed by phone or in phones or in person not to venture into sea directly by district officers. NIC

46. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services 7. Services provided by IMD – HQ in tie up with state IMD stations. Which in turn with Dept. of fisheries, Dept. fo Animal Husbandry, Irrigation etc g. INCOIS digital display systems are in placed in coastal areas since 2010. The following measures have been adopted by the hatchery units, farms etc . under the inclement weather Under depression rainy season , cyclone condition - farmers should stop feeding to the seedlings - Reduce stocking density - Test the water quality - if ammonia is high, apply zeolite at 10-15 kgs per acre. Use bioremediators to prevent release and accumulation of bad gases like amonia, hydrogen sulphide etc.. NIC

47. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services A number of private firms namely Reuter Market Light, Handygo, Vritti Solution, IFFCO Kisan Sanchar Limited (IKSL), Nokia is disseminating the Agro-met Advisories generated under IAAS through SMS and Interactive Voice (IVRS). At present, 15 States namely Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, West Bengal, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra and Himachal Pradesh have been covered under this service. Advisory is also disseminated through SMS to the farming community of Maharashtra, in collaboration with the State Department of Agriculture, Government of Maharashtra. At present 1965361 farmers were benefitted by this service Existing dissemination mechanism NIC

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49. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services System Architecture Diagram NIC

50. Service 4 Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services Home Page View of State Agriculture Portal NIC