Source: News on Air
Context: ICRISAT and ICAR have launched an AI-powered, context-specific Agromet Advisory Service for climate-resilient agriculture.
About ICAR’s AI-Powered Agromet Advisory:
- What it is?
- It is a real-time, personalised climate advisory system developed using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to assist smallholder farmers in making informed agricultural decisions amid rising climate risks.
- Developed by: Jointly launched by ICRISAT and ICAR, with support from the Government of India’s Monsoon Mission-III and partners like IMD, IITM, and CGIAR’s AI4CRA.
- Objective: To provide real-time, hyper-local, and personalised weather and climate advisories to smallholder farmers for adaptive decision-making.
- Pilot Implementation: The project is being piloted in Maharashtra through ICAR’s Agro-Meteorological Field Units (AMFUs) before scaling nationwide and internationally.
- Key Features:
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- AI & ML-based dynamic models for crop-weather analytics.
- AI-powered WhatsApp bot for easy delivery in regional languages.
- Personalised insights based on crop cycle, soil, location, and socio-economic profile.
- Real-time integration of IMD data and satellite observations.
- Multi-channel dissemination including IVRS, mobile apps, and village resource centres.
- Significance:
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- Enhances climate resilience of over 120 million small and marginal farmers.
- Boosts productivity by reducing climate-related uncertainties.
- Bridges last-mile delivery gap in agri-tech advisory.
