NPTEL : NOC:Weather Forecast in Agriculture and Agro-advisory (WF) (Agriculture)

Co-ordinators : Dr. R. Nagarajan, Co Faculty, Dr.T.N.Balasubramanian (Rtd.), Instructor Incharge


Lecture 1 - Introduction

Lecture 2 - Basic aspects of Atmosphere, Climate, Weather

Lecture 3 - Basic aspects of Rainfall and their application in crop production

Lecture 4 - Basic aspects of Temperature and their application in crop production

Lecture 5 - Basic aspects of Relative humidity, Cloud cover and their application in crop production

Lecture 6 - Basic aspects of wind, wind direction and their application in crop production

Lecture 7 - Three weather codes and crop production

Lecture 8 - Crop production risks and their management

Lecture 9 - Weather sensitive crops, stages and farm operations

Lecture 10 - Crop-weather interactions and definition

Lecture 11 - Crop-Weather Interactions: Wheat, Rice and Maize

Lecture 12 - Crop-Weather Interactions: Sorghum, Groundnut and Pigeon pea

Lecture 13 - Crop-Weather Interactions: Cotton and Sugarcane

Lecture 14 - Crop-Weather Interactions: Sugarbeet and Chickpea

Lecture 15 - Crop-Weather Interactions: Sunflower and Mustard

Lecture 16 - Genesis of weather forecast in India and Abroad

Lecture 17 - Types of weather forecast and details

Lecture 18 - Types of weather forecast and details (Continued...)

Lecture 19 - Simple methods of verification of weather forecast with real event

Lecture 20 - Traditional knowledges on weather forecast and their validity

Lecture 21 - Weather thumb rules and their validity

Lecture 22 - Development and component of agro advisory for weather forecast

Lecture 23 - Development and component of agro advisory for weather forecast (Continued...)

Lecture 24 - Model agro advisories for selected five days weather forecast

Lecture 25 - Mass communication mode of agro advisories and their effectiveness

Lecture 26 - Discussion on weather forecast and agro advisory from different website

Lecture 27 - Role of climate manager on farm management decision based on weather forecast at village level and assignment

Lecture 28 - Development of selected weather window for issuing agro advisory - case study from Tamil Nadu

Lecture 29 - Model of agro advisory for 54 selected weather window of Tamil Nadu for rice

Lecture 30 - Response farming- a type of farm planning being practiced in Australia considering seasonal climate forecast

Lecture 31 - Case study in India on the adoption of weather based crop production - Crop management

Lecture 32 - Case study in India on the adoption of weather based crop production - Pest and disease management

Lecture 33 - Case study in India on the adoption of weather based animal production

Lecture 34 - Cost benefit analysis for the case study done on crop management

Lecture 35 - Cost benefit analysis for the case study done on animal management

Lecture 36 - Summary