With the increase in population, the demand for food is also increasing. The critical challenges in attaining food security include the adverse climatic changes and diminishing agricultural yield due to several factors such as agricultural drought, pests, and other diseases. The Agriculture drought is a condition when the available soil moisture becomes insufficient to...
Madhya Pradesh, a state with the agrarian economy is enriched with black cotton soil and hence forms the ideal land for agriculture. 80% of the state depends on agriculture. Monitoring soil moisture is important as mostly rain-fed agriculture is practiced throughout the state. The above soil moisture map has been prepared by Satyukt Analytics...
According to reports by IMD, Bihar has been witnessing deficiency of rainfall from the past seven years with an increasing number of dry days. . The abnormal pattern of rainfall may affect the agrarian economy of the state adversely as agriculture generates nearly 24.84% of the State Domestic Product. As water remains one of...
Heavy downpour in the recent days have adversely affected many places of India. Reportedly, IMD (Indian Meteorological Department) declared many districts of Karnataka as rainfall deficit. Contradicting this, some parts of the districts which the authorities declared as rainfall deficit, have been experiencing flood-like situation due to the incessant rains. While the total rainfall...
Coorg or Kodagu, a district in Karnataka witnessed one of it’s worst floods last year. The devasting incident of the flood, when flood waters swept through the Cauvery catchment area and the rivers overflowed, there was a hope that this year’s agriculture may not suffer from water shortage. Contradicting the assumptions, groundwater of the...
Climatic changes may have drastic effects on Agricultural yield. The knowledge about the variation of these changes with time is of utmost importance as this helps to adapt different agricultural practices for the betterment of yield. The conventional way of measuring climatic change is by using precipitation and temperature data. The usage of this...
Madhya Pradesh, a state with the agrarian economy is enriched with black cotton soil and hence forms the ideal land for agriculture. 80% of the state depends on agriculture. Monitoring soil moisture is important as mostly rain-fed agriculture is practiced throughout the state. The above soil moisture map has been prepared by Satyukt Analytics...
Pakistan’s agriculture sector accounts for about 23% of GDP and employs about half of the labour force, hence parameters influencing crop yield are crucial. . Soil moisture is one of the main parameters that influence crop health, monitoring which in near real-time is beneficial for farmers to adopt different agricultural practices for the betterment...
Cauvery basin, the one known for its bitter water dispute between the riparian states extends over states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, and the Union territory of Puducherry. The issue that dates back to the pre-independence times still stands unresolved due to the lack of access to historic hydrologic data and lack of research...
More than 60 percent of the population Of Andhra Pradesh is dependent on Agriculture. Practicing right agricultural methods to cope up with the climate change, hence becomes important. As most of the state practices rain-fed agriculture, knowledge about precipitation, soil moisture and other agrohydrological parameters would benefit farmers to implement precision irrigation and thus...