India - Meghdoot app to provide weather-based agro advisories

Meghdoot, a simple and easy to use mobile application which provides crop advisories to the farmers based on the weather information. It is a joint initiative of India Meteorological Department (IMD), Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) and Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).

Advisories are available in both English and local languages. An interested user has to download ‘Meghdoot’ application and sign in using their mobile number and preferred language. The app provides district-wise advisories on crop and livestock management issued by Agro Met Field Units (AMFU) every Tuesday and Friday based on the past and forecasted weather information. It will help the farmers to take weather-sensitive decisions like the sowing of crops, pesticide and fertiliser application, irrigation scheduling and vaccination of animals.

Apart from the crop advisory, the app also provides current weather information, past and forecasted weather information of five days about rainfall, temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, which play critical roles in agricultural operations. The farmers of North Goa district are suggested to download 'Meghdoot' app and to make use of daily weather information available for the district. So that farmer can plan their field operations according to changing weather and minimise crop losses.

The app can be downloaded from Google Play Store for Android and App Store for iOS.