Soil moisture can demarcate the onset of agricultural drought in near real time

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...

Farmers in dilemma, as dry spell over Bihar shows no sign of withdrawal

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...

Weather paradox: Rain deficient Karnataka reels under flood

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...

Battling climate change with Satellite data

Earth’s climate has changed throughout history. The climate is changing drastically now than at any point in history, mainly because of the anthropogenic activities . Living and coping the impacts of the most debated issue of climate change is no longer a choice but is essential for survival. Climate change is growing as a...

Groundwater regulation based on the soil-moisture requirement, a much-needed paradigm change?

With a decrease in the trend of rainfall, groundwater becomes the primary source of water. Most of the regions are overly dependent on it resulting in a consumption rate higher than its natural replenishable rate causing water tables to decline. The decline in groundwater level in wells in India is estimated to be 61...

How Satellites Are Making Agriculture More Efficient

Satyukt Analytics Pvt Ltd (Satyukt), an initiative by a pool of multidisciplinary technical professionals teamed up to deliver earth observation data at your doorstep. We have learned diverse agricultural challenges across the globe and believe the R&D of geospatial tools and technologies can successfully face them. But geospatial tools and technologies cannot be successful...

Estimating water budgets to determine the impact of changes in the land-use pattern

Water budget analyses is an approach that emphasis on the transport, storage, and utilization of water on the surface of the earth. Ensuring sustainable water supplies requires knowledge about the movement of water(hydrologic cycle). Water budgets are tools that water users and managers use to quantify the hydrologic cycle. A water budget accounts for...

Estimation of agricultural input requirement at farm scale

Agricultural inputs like fertilizers, water,etc, are components that are added to improve the growth of plants. If not in optimum amounts, these can do more harm than good. Sometimes a spatiotemporal variation of yield is observed even in the same field due to the variation in the physical and chemical properties of soil such...

Helping with production and crop marketing decisions

Know thy-self, know thy competition, and get it right almost every time. Know thy-self, not know thy competition, and get it right about half the time. Not know thy-self, not know thy competition, and get it wrong almost every time As food is one of the paramount need of humankind, a substantial emphasis has...