Software Requirements Specification Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisories Amendment Log Version Number Date Change Number Brief Description Sections change 1.0 D 30/03/2012 1.0 D Draft All. 1.0 11/04/2012 1.0 Final 2.1.3 1.1 06/06/2012 1.1 Revised 2.6, 2.8 NeGP (A) Version 1.1 Page 2 Software Requirements Specification Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisories Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................................... 6 1.1 OVERVIEW ........................................................................................................................................................................... 6 1.2 PURPOSE .............................................................................................................................................................................. 8 1.3 INTENDED AUDIENCE ........................................................................................................................................................ 9 1.3.1 Farmers ............................................................................................................................................................................... 9 1.3.2 Central Government ...................................................................................................................................................... 9 1.3.3 State Government........................................................................................................................................................ 10 1.3.4 Private Sector ................................................................................................................................................................ 10 1.4 SCOPE ................................................................................................................................................................................ 13 1.4.1 Scope for the present document ........................................................................................................................... 13 1.4.2 Service Component to Application mapping .................................................................................................. 14 1.4.3 Transaction based ...................................................................................................................................................... 16 1.4.4 Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations ....................................................................................................... 16 1.4.5 References ....................................................................................................................................................................... 17 1.4.6 System Overview .......................................................................................................................................................... 19 2 OVERALL DESCRIPTION .................................................................................................................................. 20 2.1 PRODUCT PERSPECTIVE ................................................................................................................................................. 20 2.1.1 AS-IS scenario: Agro-meteorological Advisory Services in the Country ............................................ 20 2.1.2 Observational network for agro-met services ............................................................................................... 22 2.1.3 Meteorological Service In Agriculture............................................................................................................... 24 2.1.4 Geographical Information System ‘GIS’ ............................................................................................................ 25 2.1.5 Pictorial Presentation of Weather Forecast Collection / Dissemination .......................................... 26 2.1.6 Existing dissemination mechanism ..................................................................................................................... 27 2.2 TO BE SCENARIO: AGRO-METEOROLOGICAL ADVISORY SERVICES SYSTEM OVERVIEW (AS PROPOSED BY IMD THROUGH E-AGROMET PROJECT): ........................................................................................................................................ 28 2.2.1 The design of e-Agro-met system ......................................................................................................................... 29 2.2.2 Objective: ......................................................................................................................................................................... 29 2.2.3 Ongoing process of agro-met bulletin preparation: Observation: ....................................................... 29 2.2.4 Issue in the design of e-Agro-met system: ........................................................................................................ 30 2.2.5 Concepts employed for designing e-Agro-met system: .............................................................................. 30 2.2.6 More about weather deviation: ............................................................................................................................ 32 2.2.7 Agro-met bulletin preparation process using e-Agro-met tool: ............................................................ 34 2.3 TO BE PROCESS FOR AGRO-MET DISSEMINATION: .................................................................................................. 36 2.3.1 Integrated Agro-met Advisory Services (IAAS): ............................................................................................ 36 2.3.2 Broad spectrum of the activities of different tier: ........................................................................................ 37 2.3.3 Block Level Agro-meteorological Advisory Service: .................................................................................... 38 2.3.4 Agro-met Advisory Services at Block Level: .................................................................................................... 38 2.4 THE MAIN FUNCTIONS OF THE DISTRICT AGRO-MET UNITS (DAMUS) WILL BE AS UNDER: ............................ 39 2.4.1 The main functions of the Agro-Meteorological Field Unit (AMFUs) will be as under: .............. 40 2.5 HOSTING OF INTERACTIVE WEBSITE:........................................................................................................................... 41 2.6 AGRO-MET SMS: ............................................................................................................................................................ 41 2.7 DISSEMINATION OF AGRO-MET ADVISORIES: ............................................................................................................ 41 2.8 IMD-DOA, GOM TIE UP FOR AGRO MET ADVISORY DISSEMINATION .................................................................. 42 2.9 ALL INDIA COORDINATED RESEARCH PROJECT (AICRP): ...................................................................................... 47 Functional areas: ........................................................................................................................................................................ 47 2.9.1 Activity performed for the areas mentioned above: ................................................................................... 47 2.9.2 Impact of Agromet Services: .................................................................................................................................. 48 2.10 NATIONAL INITIATIVE ON CLIMATE RESILIENT AGRICULTURE (NICRA): ........................................................ 48 Objectives: ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 49 2.10.1 All India Coordinated Research Project for Dry land Agriculture (AICRPDA): ........................... 49 2.11 INDIAN AGRICULTURE TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND CLIMATE VULNERABILITY: ................................................... 51 2.11.1 Objectives: .................................................................................................................................................................... 51 NeGP (A) Version 1.1 Page 3 Software Requirements Specification Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisories 2.11.2 Kerala: ........................................................................................................................................................................... 52 2.12 CLIMATE-RESILIENT AGRICULTURE AND GREEN GROWTH ................................................................................... 56 2.12.1 Overview ....................................................................................................................................................................... 56 2.12.2 Current Forum ........................................................................................................................................................... 56 2.12.3 Why is climate-Resilient agriculture is important: .................................................................................. 56 2.12.4 Tools for land use planning and management 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