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

Media Storage Type : 32 GB USB Stick

NPTEL Subject Matter Expert : Dr. R. Nagarajan, Co Faculty, Dr.T.N.Balasubramanian (Rtd.), Instructor Incharge

NPTEL Co-ordinating Institute :  IIT Kanpur

NPTEL Lecture Count : 36

NPTEL Course Size : 3.2 GB

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Lecture Titles:

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