The crop-weather calendars are used in agromet-advisory services. With the week as the basic time unit, the compiled information can assist forecasters in framing weather warnings and forecasts directed at farmers. Crop-weather calendars provide information on crop growth stages, normal weather for crop growth, warnings to be issued based on prevailing weather condition, water requirement of crops during their various phenophases and weather conditions favourable for development of crop pests and diseases. These calendars are useful for crop planning, irrigation scheduling and plant protection measures. Information contained in the calendars gives broad indications of the direction of development which may prove useful to the planners, agricultural administrators, plant breeders and the farmers in formulating policy matters regarding plant breeding, crop adoption, drought, supplemental irrigation, maximizing the yield. Crop weather calendars can act as guiding tool while issuing crop weather advisories for the farming community
In addition to the static crop weather calendar mentioned above, it is also possible to prepare Dynamical Crop Weather Calendars of major crops for location specific agromet advisories on real time. Under such initiatives long term weather, near real time weather, weather forecast (short, medium & long term), crop data phenology including early sown, normal, late sown crop are considered. Based on this calendar, irrigation requirement advisory, pest & disease forewarning advisories are be issued on real time basis. High end software like METLAB is used to generate the calendars. IT Agri prepares crop weather calendars for different crops based on the above mentioned methods and technologies.
Crop Weather Calendar of Paddy
