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Impact of Meghdoot Mobile App - A Weather-based Agro-advisory Service in Cold arid Ladakh

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Yogesh Kumar — Technical Assistant, Agriculture Extension Education, AICRP-National Seed Project (Seeds), Shalimar, SKUAST-Kashmir, J&K, India
Kaneez Fatima — Technical Officer, Agronomy, High Mountain Arid Agriculture Research Institute, Leh-Ladakh, SKUAST-Kashmir, J&K, India
Mahendra Singh Raghuvanshi — Principal Scientist, Agronomy. ICAR-National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Planning Nagpur-440033 Maharashtra, India
Manjeet Singh Nain — Principal Scientist, Division of Agricultural Extension, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi-110012, India
Mehrajuddin Sofi — Senior Scientist, PBG, Advance Research Station of Saffron, Dusu, Pampore, SKUAST-Kashmir, J&K, India
Published 28 Jun 2022 Vol. 58 No. 3 (2022), pp. 142-146 ● Open access
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Abstract

The study was conducted to evaluate the impact of the Meghdoot mobile application-a weather-based agro-advisory service in cold arid Ladakh during 2020-21. A random sample of 100 registered farmers was selected which included 25 farmers each from Stok and Stakna villages and 50 farmers from Bazgoo village of Leh district. The data indicated that farmers of Leh district were very belittling of newspapers followed by radio. Almost, 70 per cent of registered farmers have followed information for agriculture practices through the Meghdoot application of agro-meteorology advisory services but non-registered farmers used to follow their traditional methods for agricultural practice due to a lack of knowledge of this application of agromet-advisory services. More than 50 per cent of farmers agreed that this application provided weather information in the local language with a mean score of 0.55. Similarly, in the case of wheat, an average yield superiority of 16.71 per cent was recorded in the case of registered farmers over non-registered farmers during 2020. The mobile application provided benefits to the registered farmers in comparison to non registered farmers of district Leh, Ladakh. 

KeywordsMeghdootAgro-advisories servicesFarmersRegisteredNon-registered

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