providing information on forecasted weather & agro-met...

Providing Information On Forecasted

Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services

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Service 4Providing Information On Forecasted Weather & Agro-Met Advisory Services

Providing Information

On

FORECASTED WEATHER & AGRO-MET ADVISORIES

Software Requirements Specifications (SRS)(SRS)

(NIC-SRS Version 1.0)

April 2012

National Informatics Centre Services Inc.

Department of Information Technology

Ministry of Communications & Information Technology

Government of India

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• The Department of Agriculture and Cooperation

(DAC), Ministry of Agriculture has decided to

implement National e-Governance Programme

(NeGP) in the Agricultural Sector as a Mission

Mode Project (A-MMP), covering Agriculture,

Livestock and Fisheries.

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• The A-MMP also aims to address the needs of the

farming community and its other related

stakeholders, through provision of weather

advisory information and services through the

various delivery channels available in their vicinity

for assisting them in making rational decision.


Mission Objectives

� District level information with Agro Climatic and National Agricultural Research Project (NARP) nomenclature of zone distributions

� Dissemination of information on Forecasted Weather by IMD� Agro-Met Advisory (Maharashtra Model of Customized SMS based

advisories to be adopted)� District Level advisories available at present to be used for dissemination � A strong Feedback mechanism/ Help Desk to be developed so as to capture

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� A strong Feedback mechanism/ Help Desk to be developed so as to capture the observations of the farmers and improve upon the Advisories accordingly

� Dissemination in vernacular medium� Transfer advisories and related information to NIC to be ported on portal� Advisory Bulletins to farmers and stakeholders regarding weather sensitive

agricultural operations to mitigate weather based risk on crop cultivation � Advisories on Forecasted Weather, Variety Selection, Field Selection, Sowing

Time, Crop Health and Agro-met Advisory to be provided by experts at the State and National Level


Mission Objectives

� SMS Alerts on � Weather Forecast � Impact on Crop, � Impact on livestock� Impact on fisheries

� Study of Existing Automation of Meteorological Bulletin for Disseminating the following

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Disseminating the following� Forecast based on IMD 5 Day Medium Range data � Early Warning System (EWS) on natural calamities� Dissemination over SMS/ e-mail/ Web (G2F & G2C) � Actual Weather Summary based on Daily Weather Data� Dissemination of Agro-Met Advisories

� Content from Domain Experts at Central/State/ AMFU & KVKs, � with Early Warning System (EWS) on Pest/Disease infestation.� Dissemination over SMS/ e-mail/ Web (G2F)

� Grievance management through multiple service delivery channels to the farmers

Goal

- Automated process e-alert/warning

- Creation of infrastructure facilities


- Creation of infrastructure facilities

- Provide G2G, G2C, G2B ,G2E services

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Information on

forecasted weather

This service aims at providing disaggregated

district/block level information in each agro-

ecological sub-region on forecasted weather,


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forecasted weather

and agro-met

advisory

ecological sub-region on forecasted weather,

agro-met advisory, SMS alerts for weather

forecast and crop impact and grievance

management through multiple service delivery

channels to the farmers.

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What is SRS & Why it is required ?

An SRS is the art and science of developing an accurate and

complete definition of the behaviour of software that can

serve as the basis for software development.

the conditions affecting the solution (constraints)


.

the conditions affecting the solution (constraints)the parameters of the solution (scope).

the functional requirements (what it is required to do)

non-functional requirements of the solution (solutionattributes)...

a blueprint for completing the project with as few re-designs and retrofitting features as possible.

It’s a written understanding of what a client requires of asystem.

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Functional

Requirements.

Functional requirements

2. ForecastWeather Summary

3. Information on Agro Met Bulletin

4. Information about historical & forecasted

weather

5.Alerts/SMS on forecasted weather & Natural

1.Master Data Management

Functional requirements

capture the intended

behaviour of the system - or

what the system will do. This

behaviour may be expressed

as services, tasks or functions

the system is required to

perform

5.Alerts/SMS on forecasted weather & Natural

Calamities

6.Grievance redressal management

7. Expert advisory system

8. SMS based crop-weather alerts

9.Training schedules

10.Agro meteorological advisory services

Non Functional

Requirements.

Define system properties and

constraints e.g. reliability, response

Product requirements

Requirements which specify that

the delivered product must behave

in a particular way e.g. execution

speed, reliability, etc.

Organizational requirements

Requirements which are a consequence


constraints e.g. reliability, response

time and storage requirements.

Constraints are I/O device

capability, system representations,

user- friendliness, performance

levels, response rates, quality

standards , robustness, portability,

reliability and

maintainability

Requirements which are a consequence of organizational policies and procedures e.g. process standards used, implementation requirements, etc.

External requirements

Requirements which arise from factors which are external to the system and its development process e.g. interoperability requirements, legislative requirements, etc

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Who are the users of this system ?

Financial Gateway

(bank)

Dealer/

who•The stakeholders of the system, who

interact with the system to accomplish their

tasks.

• A user may be any entity that is interested

in the services offered by the system.

Different users have different

expectations of the system behavior,

and all these combined together

constitute the overall system

requirements


System

Dealer/

farmer

Non Govt

State Govt. Central Govt

NeGPA system

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Stakeholders

I. Ministry of Earth Science

i. Indian Meteorological Department(IMD)ii. National Centre for Medium Range Weather

Forecast(NCMRWF)iii. Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM)

II. Indian Council of Agricultural Research(ICAR)


II. Indian Council of Agricultural Research(ICAR)i. Central Research Institute for Dry land Agriculture

(CRIDA)ii. KrishiVignan Kendras(KVKs)

III. Ministry of Agriculturei. Department of Agriculture and Cooperationii. Crop Weather Watch Groupiii. Department of Animal Husbandry Dairying and Fisheries iv. Cooperative Departments

IV. Department of Space

V. Central/State Agricultural Universities, Colleges and

Research Institutes

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Non Government Organisations

o Farmers Training Centres

Stakeholders


o Farmers Training Centres

o Farmers Clubs and

o Farmers Field Schools

o NGOs / Self Help Groups

o Private Sector Companies

o Akshaya,NYK, Farm Clubs, Kudumbashre, KILA

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Stakeholders

I. State and District Departmentsi. Department of Agricultureii. State Agricultural Management and Extension

Training Institutes (SAMETIs)iii. State Remote Sensing Application Centreiv. ATMA(District Level)


iv. ATMA(District Level)v. Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying vi. Department of Fisheries vii. District Administration viii. Revenue Department ix. Block /panchayat level Agriculture / Vet./ fisheries

Officers x. Cooperative Departmentsxi. Mediaxii. PWD, Irrigation, Hydroelectric, Port, telegraphs,

Railway and Community

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Stakeholders

II. Farmer Centric organisations and other

Departments


Departments

i. Farmers Training Centres(agriculture, fishermen, livestock)

ii. Farmers Clubsiii. Farmers Field Schoolsiv. NGOs / Self Help Groupsv. Private Sector Companies

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Information

Transaction

based

Services


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Information

on weather

forecastWork flow

based

Content

based

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Transaction

based

� Common Service Centres

� Krishi Vigyan Kendra

(KVKs), MVK

� Agri clinics / Agri Business

centres, Private kiosks

� SUWIDHA CentresInformation on

FORECASTED

Services


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Work flow

based

Content

based

� Departmental Offices

� Extension workers

� State Agricultural

Universities

� Agriculture Colleges

� Research Organisations

� NGOs active in Agricultural

Sector

� SMS (pull/Push),� Email alerts

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WEATHER & AGRO-

MET ADVISORIES

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Transaction

based

� (IVRS)

� Kisan Call Centres (KCC)

� State Call Centres (SCC)

� Online (web based service)

� Mass media(TV, Radio,

Newspapers)

Services


Information on

FORECASTED

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Work flow

based

Content

based

� Print Media (Pamphlets,

� Gazettes, Notifications etc.

� Advertisement

� Postal Services

� Gram Panchayats

� Dashboard / Digital Notice

Board

� Farmers Training Centres,

� ATIS

FORECASTED

WEATHER & AGRO-

MET ADVISORIES

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Transaction

based

•Master data management

• Agro-ecological regions/sub-regions

• Farmers , Agro Climatic Parameters

• Weather Summary , Forecast

Summary

(http://tripuraicar.gov.in/agromet.html)

Services


Information on

FORECASTED

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Work flow

based

Content

based

(http://tripuraicar.gov.in/agromet.html)

to be customised for All India)

• Collecting Rainfall data (India Meteorological Department/Automatic Weather

Stations/Rain gages / other sources)

• Impact on Crop, Livestock,

Agriculture etc.

•

FORECASTED

WEATHER & AGRO-

MET ADVISORIES

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Transaction

based

Services

• Actual weather details

• Forecasted weather details

•Fertilizer and manure application,

scheduling of cultural operations

• Agro-met Advisories based on

forecasted weather on

- CropVariety Selection,


Information on

FORECASTED

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Work flow

based

Content

based

- CropVariety Selection,

- Crop field selection

- SowingTime, Crop Health

- harvest, post harvest,

- preventive measures on pest ,

disease forecast.

- Agriculture operation, livestock

management activities

FORECASTED

WEATHER & AGRO-

MET ADVISORIES

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Transaction

based

Services

Mapping of location


Information on

FORECASTED

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Work flow

based

Content

based

• GIS - Mapping of location

with resources

• Expert advisory

• Grievance management

FORECASTED

WEATHER & AGRO-

MET ADVISORIES

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Content Based Components

Sl .No. Service Component Application

1 Weather forecast summary Medium Range Weather Forecast comprising of capturing

of forecast data published by the IMD, allow for its

moderation by IMD local office

2 Information on Actual weather Actual Weather comprising of capturing actual weather

Service Component to Application mapping


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2 Information on Actual weather

summary

Actual Weather comprising of capturing actual weather

data on different parameters (Temperature min. / max.,

Wind Speed / direction, Rainfall, Humidity min. / max.,

Cloud) as sent by the different Agro-Met Stations,

converting and incorporating weather historical data

(one-time) generating actual weather summary

3 Information on monsoon status (Weekly / Monthly / Yearly for planning based on South

West Monsoon and North East Monsoon

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Sl .No. Service Component Application

4 Information on Agro Met Bulletin Information on Agro Met Bulletin comprising of crop staging advisories

filtered/aggregated at any level

5 Advisory on Crop staging information and Insect/

Pest infestation information related to Agro Met

Expert Advisory on Crop staging information and Insect/ Pest infestation

information


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6 Information / impact of prevailing weather

conditions on different crops

Providing Information / impact of prevailing weather conditions on different

crops by the agricultural officers.

7 Information on Weather based / seasonal

livestock disease

Providing information on livestock diseases and advisories to take care

livestock from various weather based / seasonal conditions.

8 Crop weather calendars Up-to-date crop weather calendars for entire country. That consists crop

growth stages, warnings, weather condition, water requirement, phytophases,

meteorological conditions, crop pests and diseases, planning, irrigation

scheduling and plant protection measures.

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Sl

.No.

Service Component Application

9 Agro climatic Atlas of India An updated version of Agro climatic Atlas is prepared by

taking more no. of stations along with inclusion of more no.

Of parameters.


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Of parameters.

10 Soil Moisture Mapping of India Soil moisture status is an important component of water

balance in a region. Based on short period data series

publication on “Soil Moisture Mapping of India” has been

prepared by the Agrimet Division. Gravimetric

observations of soil moisture (SM) on bare soils from a

network of 30 stations in India

11 MIS Reports Few dynamic MIS reports related to agro-met System.

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Transaction Based Components

Sl.No. Service Component Application

12 Grievance Management Farmer / citizen should be provided facility to

submit their grievances / ground level facts and

the public suggestion through IVRS to

Government. A System may also be provided for


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monitoring the grievance lodged and action

taken/ solution provided by advisory bodies

13 ForecastWeather Summary Medium Range Weather Forecast comprising of

capturing of forecast data published by the IMD,

allow for its moderation by IMD local office

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Transaction Based Components

S.No. Service Component Application

14 Information on Agro Met Bulletin Information on Agro Met Bulletin comprising of

crop staging advisories filtered/aggregated at any

level

15 Information about historical and forecasted Information about historical and forecasted

1.Transaction based


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15 Information about historical and forecasted

rainfall

Information about historical and forecasted

rainfall

16 Alerts on forecasted weather & natural

calamities

Information on forecasted weather & natural

calamities and generation of Alerts

17 SMS Based weather & natural calamities

alerts

SMS Based weather alerts to agricultural / fish

farmers

18 SMS Based Crop- weather alerts SMS Based Crop- weather alerts

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As – is System

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National Centre for

Medium Range Weather

Forecasting (NCMRWF of

IMD

Forecast

On

Tuesdays

&

Fridays

• ICAR

Agro-meteorological Advisory Services in the Country – An AS-IS-Situation Scenario

30 ICAR

615 KVK

100 NICRA

130 AMFU(975) centres


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• ICAR

1.All India Coordinated Research Project in Agro-Meteorology (AICRPAM) of CRIDA,

ICAR : 30 Centres in Regional Research Stations and Centre for Agro-Met Research in

SAUs/SVUs, for Location-specific weather forecast anytime when Farmers wants;

2.All India Coordinated Research Project in Dryland Agriculture (AICRPDA) of CRIDA,

ICAR : through ICAR Institutions and SAUs;

3.Krishi Vigyan Kendras (615), one in each district, of ICAR;

4.National Initiative in Climatic Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) Centres – 100 Centres

(100 proposed);5.District level Contingency Plan for Weather vagaries in India;

• IMD

1.Integrated Agromet Advisory Services (IAAS) through 130 Agro-Meteorological Field

Units (AMFUs), located in SAUs/Regional Research Stations; Involvement of Private / Public

Sectors to strengthen IAAS, through MOU; Involvement of IITs, IITs, IISc, NITs, State / Central

Universities, etc;

2.E-AGROMET : ICT enabled Agro-met Advisory services through IIIT, Hyderabad

(Automating Advisory preparation using Date warehousing/data mining techniques etc)

3.Block level IAAS in pilot scale;

Gramin Krishi Mousam Sewa during 12th Five Year Plan;

FAR

ME

R

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AFMU role in the chain of operation


Forecast from IMD, New Delhi

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State Met Centers

Farmer / End User

Agro-met Advisory Bulletin by

AMFUs

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Observational network for agro-met services

Type of Observatory Nos.

Surface Observatories 559

Aviation Current Weather

Observatories

71

High Wind Speed Recording Stations 4

INSAT-based Data Collection Platforms 100

Hydro meteorological Observatories 701

Non-Departmental Rain gauge -Reporting- - Non-

Type of Observatory Nos.

Soil Moisture Recording Stations 49

Dew-fall Recording Stations 80

Evapotranspiration Stations 39

Ozone Stations 6

Radiation Stations 45


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Non-Departmental Rain gauge

Stations:

-Reporting-

-3540

- Non-

Reporting-

5039

Non-Departmental Glaciological

Observatories (Non-reporting): Snow

gauge

21

Ordinary Rain gauges 10

Seasonal Snow Poles 6

Agro meteorological Observatories 219

Evaporation Stations 222

Radiation Stations 45

Air Pollution Observatories

- Background Pollution Observatories

10

Urban Climatological Units 2

Urban Climatological Observatories 13

Ships of the Indian Voluntary Observing Fleet 203

Seismological Observatories 58

Automatic Weather Stations 500+

Automatic Rain Gauge Stations 390+

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Observational network for agro-met services

Agro-met Division of IMD maintains different agro-met observatories, for agro

meteorological, evaporation, soil moisture, evapo transpiration, dew fall and

desert locust monitoring.

At present, there were 219 agro meteorological observatories, 42 ET and 43 soil


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At present, there were 219 agro meteorological observatories, 42 ET and 43 soil

moisture observatories, 49 evaporation observatories and 80 dewfall

observatories. 559 stations from all over the country.

Besides Agro AWS at 500+ places is installed all over the country and the data is

being received in DCP, Pune regularly. Scrutiny of CWS, SM, ET and dew data has

been done up to year 2009.

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Ministry of Earth sciences

(Government of India)

IMD Agro-met Services

State

Meteorological

Centre (23) IMD

Agro-meteorological field units(127),Agro climatic

zones(15), SAUs, ICAR institutions

State

Department of

Agriculture

NCMRWF – National Centre for Medium Range

Weather Forecast.

Department of Agriculture and cooperation.

Central Crop Weather Watch Group.

ICAR R&D inputs.

Media

Department of Space.

Department of Information Technology.

State Crop Weather Watch Groups

1. Drought Monitoring Centre.

2. State Remote Sensing Application

1. Existing Information Flow hierarchy between various organisations

with respect to Weather Forecasting and Agro-met Advisories

zones(15), SAUs, ICAR institutions

District level Agriculture extension setup

with DACExt/ATMA

Block Level (BDO) farm input management

Village Level(CSC and DIT)

NGOs and KVKs

2. State Remote Sensing Application

Centre.

3. KVKs and NGOs.

Extension Directorates

Local Media/ NGOs

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3. Information Flow for collection of actual weather

The source of this information could be Block, or Agri Sub-Divisions or IMD extension offices (in airports).

District / Sub

District

Block

Receive rainfall Data from Blocks ,

Compile and Send to Directorate

District / Sub District

Block


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Joint Directors

Office/

Directorate

Other

Stakeholders

Directorate

Compile and analyze Data to be

used for planning

Universities, Research Institutes, Krishi Vigyan

Kendras and other stakeholders

4. Information Flow for weather forecast

Agro Metrological

Field Unit

AMFU Analyses data and Prepares

Met Data Captured by Meteorological

Centre( IMD) from Dept. of

Space/Automatic Weather Stations

Data sent to AMFUs located at

Ranchi,Dumka,East Singhbhum.

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Information on FORECASTEDWEATHER & AGRO-MET ADVISORIES

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Deputy Director

Agriculture

AMFU Analyses data and Prepares

advisory.

Advisory is sent every Tuesday and

Friday to Deputy Director, Agriculture

(DDA), Krishi Vigyan Kendra,

KRIBHCO, University,NGO’s , ATMA

Deputy Director, Agriculture (DDA) acts

on advisory through its agencies. KVK

also acts on advisory by displaying in

display board and Mass Media

� The e-Agromet system is an ICT-enabled agromet advisory preparation system.

� Based on the potential weather types, the Guided Agromet Advisory (GAABs) are

prepared in e-Agromet software system.

� The e-Agromet software system takes real-time weather forecast received from

IMD and produces corresponding GAAB as an output.

In the proposed system, the Real-time Agromet Advisory Bulletin (RAAB) is

prepared by retrieving the corresponding GAAB from e-Agromet. After retrieving

GAAB, the expert team prepares the corresponding RAAB by deliberating the crop

and weather dynamics.

� The feedback from the expert team is stored back into e-Agromet system. The

5. E-Agromet project , Kerala


� The feedback from the expert team is stored back into e-Agromet system. The

RAABs are disseminated to the stakeholders. Also, feedback is collected which is

entered into the e-Agromet

Preparation of

Guided Agromet

Bulletin (GAAB)

Potential

Weather

Forecast

TypesDelivery of

RAB to

Stakeholders

eAgromet:

Repository

of PABs

Feedback through

stakeholders and field

visits by scientists

Preparation of

RAAB

Realtime Weather

forecast by IMD

6. EWS-Alappuzha , Kerala

EWS is a people-centered disaster warningmechanism that will function for the fishingcommunity who are easily vulnerable tonatural calamities. A facility to offer mobileaccess to fisher folk.


Provides day to day possible disasterinformation to fishermen through SMS(voice message in their language).

The key partner to implement this project is the Revenue Department

Disaster control room in collaboration with NGOs and Grama

Panchayats of the coastal areas, the Meteorological Department, BSNL

etc. The technical assistance is provided by National Informatics

Centre. The District Administration provides the overall regulatory and

coordination framework, other organizations can network and provide

expertise to achieve the objectives of the project. The objective is to

have a sustainable program in place to provide an SMS and email

alerts on a possible disaster and most importantly early warning

dissemination throughout the district.

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6. EWS-Alapuzha , Kerala

How ?

•On line registration of stakeholders

•Activation of accounts by District Administrators


•Information delivery as SMS / voice message in their

language , E-mail

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7. Services provided by IMD – HQ in tie up with state IMD stations.

Which in turn with Dept. of fisheries, Dept. fo Animal Husbandry,

Irrigation etc

a. Area Cyclone Warning Centres(ACWC) and the Cyclone

Warning Centres (CWC) of IMD

are responsible for cyclone forecasting in the Bay of


are responsible for cyclone forecasting in the Bay of

Bengal and Arabian Sea - the National Cyclone Warning Centre at

New Delhi being the coordinator.

Computerised Operational Advisory Forecasts on cyclone

movements are being issued by the Numerical Weather Prediction

(NWP) division of the Department at the H.Q., New Delhi

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Irrigation etc

b. Area Cyclone Warning Centres (ACWC ) Issues four stage

warnings on Cyclone alert & Cyclone warning, in case of a system

striking the coast or near the coast and port & fisheries warnings

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striking the coast or near the coast and port & fisheries warnings

and heavy rainfall warnings for various agencies.

After receipt of pre-cyclone watch bulletin issued by HQ,

ACWC/CWC will monitor issue of warnings under two stage warning

system- Cyclone Alert and CycloneWarning.

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Irrigation etc

C.Cyclone Alert - the first stage warning:

This is issued 48 hrs. in advance of the commencement

of adverse weather, to Collector of coastal districts and

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of adverse weather, to Collector of coastal districts and

the Chief Secretary of the concerned maritime

state. After issue of alert message for broadcast, the

concerned AIRs are to be requested to maintain round

the clock watch to receive & broadcast the subsequent

numbered bulletins.

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7. Services provided by IMD – HQ in tie up with state IMD stations. Which

in turn with Dept. of fisheries, Dept. fo Animal Husbandry, Irrigation etc

d.Cyclone warning – the second stage warning:

This is issued 24 hrs. in advance of the commencement of

adverse weather. Subsequent to this warning, any other


adverse weather. Subsequent to this warning, any other

crucial warning is being sent more frequently to all the

concerned recipients (Collectors & Chief Secretaries), if the

storm is tracked by radar with a high degree of confidence.

These recipients will be informed that subsequent warning

on the storm will be broadcast by AIR stations.

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Irrigation etc

d.Cyclone warning – fourth stage warning:

Post Landfall Outlook (PLO) meant for Interior districts issued 12


hrs. before the estimated landfall of the storm in order to bring

to the notice of the Collectors of interior districts about their

area likely to be affected by cyclone

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Irrigation etc

e. FisheriesWarnings

When wind speed over sea area is expected to exceed 45 kmph in the sea


area up to 75 Nautical miles from the coast, wind warnings are issued and

communicated to the Director of Fisheries, all Dy. Directors of Fisheries

and Director of Ports through fax/SMS through VPN connection, advising

fisherman to be cautious while venturing into the sea.

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Irrigation etc.

f. Heavy rainfall warnings

When rainfall amount is expected to exceed 7 cm, heavy rainfall warnings


When rainfall amount is expected to exceed 7 cm, heavy rainfall warnings

are issued to District Collectors and various agencies, such as public

services, PWD, Irrigation, Hydroelectric, Port, telegraphs, Railway and

Community Project Officials, so that the disaster management machinery

can be kept in readiness

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Irrigation etc

f. Heavy rainfall warnings

During cyclone (tsunami) depressions , the dept. Of fisheries receives

information from cyclone warning centre Vishakapatanam through phone or


SMS after receipt of the warning district fisheries officials shall communicate

the message to the field level officers (FDO) and request them to

communicate the same to the fishermen . Depending on the intensity, the

fishermen are made alert not to venture into the sea. The fishermen village

heads are informed by phone or in phones or in person not to venture into sea

directly by district officers.

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Irrigation etc

g. INCOIS digital display systems are in placed in coastal areas since

2010.

The following measures have been adopted by the hatchery units,


The following measures have been adopted by the hatchery units,

farms etc . under the inclement weather Under depression rainy

season , cyclone condition

- farmers should stop feeding to the seedlings

- Reduce stocking density

- Test the water quality

- if ammonia is high, apply zeolite at 10-15 kgs per acre.

Use bioremediators to prevent release and accumulation of

bad gases like amonia, hydrogen sulphide etc..

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Existing dissemination mechanism A number of private firms namely

Reuter Market Light, Handygo, Vritti

Solution, IFFCO Kisan Sanchar Limited

(IKSL), Nokia is disseminating the Agro-

met Advisories generated under IAAS

through SMS and Interactive Voice

(IVRS). At present, 15 States namely

Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana,

Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa,

West Bengal, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala,


West Bengal, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala,

Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar,

Maharashtra and Himachal Pradesh

have been covered under this service.

Advisory is also disseminated through

SMS to the farming community of

Maharashtra, in collaboration with the

State Department of Agriculture,

Government of Maharashtra. At

present 1965361 farmers were

benefitted by this service

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To – Be System


To – Be System

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System Architecture Diagram


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System Architecture Diagram

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Home Page View of State Agriculture Portal


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The Agro-met Advisory Service Section view of State Agriculture Portal


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The Agro-met Advisory Service Section view of State Agriculture Portal


Authorities

Latest News events

Agro-met Advisory

Agro-met News

Subscribe to Newsletter

Archives Newsletter

Agro climatic zone classification

National level

State priority areas (agro climatic zone wise)

Dissemination of advisories

Email

SMS

Radio

Doordarshan

Newspaper

Best Practices (On the basis of agro climatic zone)

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National level

State level

District level

Weather based agro Advisory

5 Tier details

Ministry Policy

IMD Pune

Met center

Agro met field units

KVK

National PRIORITY AREAS (common areas)

Best Practices (On the basis of agro climatic zone)

General Condition

Extreme Condition

Contingency Plan

End user and stakeholder feedback

Risk Factor (local level)

End user query redressal

Scroll information on current day weather

Service Provider

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Automatic Alerts on Weather Aberration


• System will generate automatic weather alerts against Pre-defined

threshold limits of 7 parameters of weather

• Alerts will be area Specific

Alert!

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Alert!

Temp will rise by 6 deg C above

Threshold in next 24 hrs.

“PROTECT YOUR GRAPES FROM

EXCESSIVE HEAT”

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Information Needs for the End Users (Early warning System)


• Local agro-climate & its variability

• Weather forecast

� Short & Medium Range

� Extended range

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� Extended range

� Seasonal Scale

• Climate Prediction

• Pest/disease prognosis & control measures

• Advice on sowing/harvest, cultivar selection,

farm input management & intercultural

operations

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Empowering End Users


� Generate information on

• Weather & Climate (Observations &

Forecast)

• Impact of likely weather on agricultural

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• Impact of likely weather on agricultural

and farming industry

• Impact of likely weather on Pest and

Disease

• Weather based input management

• Weather sensitivity of farm operations

� Development of decision making tools

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Empowering Tools


Information would be required from various empowering tools

• Creation of farmer’s / end users database• Crops, Soils, Pest and Diesease modeling

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• Crops, Soils, Pest and Diesease modeling• Remote sensing information mapping

(location/weather)• Disseminate information throughWeb,Mobile etc.• Outreach, capacity building, Feedback mechanism• Mobile based e-Authentication of AADHAAR for using

NeGP Applications.

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Challenges


� Weather Forecast mechanism – quality, timeliness, usability etc.

� Locale Specific, Quantitative, Seamless – ( viz. integrated approach)

� Agro-meteorological Advisory – cross functional dependency.

� Advisory Dissemination, Outreach & Feedback – quality

� Decision Support Tools for Translating Weather Forecast into Advisories –

technical

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technical

� Crops, Livestock, Pest and Disease , Fisheries conditions assessment

Where to collect information from?

� Diagnose Weather Related Stress

Who will diagnose and monitor?

� Weather Sensitivity of Crops & Management Practices

Who will measure and provide?

� Synergistic Collaboration among stakeholders

Who are these institutions?

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Integrated Agro-met Advisory Services (IAAS)


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Integrated Agro-met Advisory Services (IAAS)

IAAS project is being implemented through five-tier

structure to set up different components of the service

spectrum. It include meteorological (weather observing &

forecasting), agricultural (identifying weather sensitive

stress & preparing suitable advisory using weather


stress & preparing suitable advisory using weather

forecast), extension (two way communication with user) and

information dissemination (Media, Information Technology,

Telecom) agencies

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Silent Features of Integrated Agro-met Advisory Services (IAAS)

• Smart Dissemination System

• Feedback option for end users

• Less expensive

• Monitoring & Review


• Monitoring & Review

• AAS awareness & user interaction

programs

- Conducted at State, District levels

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Agro-met advisory System – AICRPA


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Geographical Information System ‘GIS’

• ‘GIS’ system captures, integrates, stores,

edits, analyzes, shares, and displays

geographic information.

• It is digitally creates and "manipulates"

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• It is digitally creates and "manipulates"

spatial areas.

• Allow users to create interactive queries,

analyze spatial information, edit data, maps,

and present the results of all these

operations.

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Vet GIS: DIS based System to Find Suspect Regions For

Animal Disease/Discomfort Caused By Hazardous Water

• weather conditions are not suitable for different

animals

• Identifying suspect regions prone to outbreak

of animal disease caused by weather conditions

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of animal disease caused by weather conditions

prevailing for somewhat longer durations.

• It helps to protect animals from extreme

weather conditions like:

� Drought

� floods

� Weather

� Hot Weather

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Climate-Resilient agriculture and green growth

• Climate change is an imposing challenge faced

across all continents.

• Emerging economies like India are no exception,

with climate change impacting not just agriculture

but rural ecosystems more broadly and urban

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but rural ecosystems more broadly and urban

environments too (Gov. of India 2008).

• India has some advantages, though, in being able to

learn from the mistakes and experiences of the

industrialized world, and to take advantage of new

technologies; including information and

communication technologies (ICTs).

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Encompassing information on the following areas:

• Environment and Energy Management

• Ecology and Ecosystems

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• Ecology and Ecosystems

• Flora, Fauna and Conservation

• Environment Law and Trade

• Media, Environment Education and Sustainable

Development

• Chemicals, Wastes and Toxicology

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This forum explores two main areas where ICT

can be used to achieve climate-smart

agriculture:

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Tools for land use planning and management

Risk management tools for climate change adaptation

Dissemination

Communication technologies such as mobile phones, PDAs, Email,

radio, Television and Newspapers can be used to disseminate this

information as well as information on good farming practices to

farmers.

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SMS dissemination process

Delhi HQ &

Agro-Met Source

Server Process

End User

(Received Message

with hyper link)

Moderate snow on

an overcast sky and

cold humid day.

Min:8.0 deg C Max:

24.0 deg C Min

humidity: 29.0 %

Max humidity: 65.0

% Rainfall:0.0 mm

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<SMS Converted into

multi language>

End User 1

(mobile)

End User 2

(mobile)

End User –n

(mobile)

Server

Process

% Rainfall:0.0 mm

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IAAS (IMD) (130)

Agromet

To be process for Agro-Met dissemination


AICRP (30)

NICRA (200)

User/Farmer

Agromet

Portal

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Functionalities : proposed Agro Met system


Functionality Description Actor(s)

View Agro Met Advisory This use case would allow the actor to

select view Agro Met Advisory

SAP user, farmer, general users

View Agro Met News This use case would allow the actor to

select view Agro Met News


Generate Automatic alerts on weather This use case would allow the actor to SAP user, farmer, general users

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Generate Automatic alerts on weather

aberration

This use case would allow the actor to

get Automatic alerts on weather

aberration


Subscribe to Agro Met Newsletter This use case would allow the actor to

Subscribe to Agro Met Newsletter


View Archives Newsletter This use case would allow the actor to

view Archives Newsletter


View Agro climatic zone classification This use case would allow the actor to

view Agro climatic zone classification


View Weather based agro Advisory This use case would allow the actor to

view Weather based agro Advisory


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Functionalities : proposed Agro Met system


Functionality Description Actor(s)

View National PRIORITY AREAS (common

areas)

This use case would allow the actor to view

Weather based agro Advisory


View State priority areas (agro climatic

zone wise)

This use case would allow the actor to view

State priority areas (agro climatic zone

wise)


Dissemination of advisories This use case would allow the actor to SAP user, farmer, general users

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Dissemination of advisories This use case would allow the actor to

Select Dissemination of advisories


View Best Practices (On the basis of agro

climatic zone)


Select View Best Practices (On the basis of

agro climatic zone)


Capture End user and stakeholder

feedback


Select upload End user and stakeholder

feedback


Upload End user query redressal This use case would allow the actor to

Select Upload End user query redressal


Scroll information on current day weather This use case would allow the actor to

Select Scroll information on current day

weather


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Broad spectrum of the activities of different tier

IMD has issued quantitative district level (619 districts) weather forecast

up to 5 days and the products comprise of quantitative forecasts for 7

weather parameters viz., rainfall, maximum temperature, minimum

temperatures, wind speed, wind direction, relative humidity and

cloudiness.


In addition, weekly cumulative rainfall forecast is also provided. IMD,

New Delhi generates these products using Multi Model Ensemble

technique based on forecast products available from number models of

India and other countries.

The products were disseminated to Regional Meteorological Centers

and Meteorological Centers of IMD located in different states

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Weather forecast by

IMD

1. Identify the potential weather deviation

patterns by analyzing weather data of past

years(50 Years).

2. For each potential weather pattern , prepare

Agro-Met Advisory Bulletin in advance.

3. Based on the weather predictions, System

finds appropriate Agro-Met Bulleting and

sends the same to farmers

Agro-meteorological Advisory Services System overview (as proposed by

IMD through e-AGROMET project):


Preparation of Agro

met bulletin in an

offline manner

Identifying Potential

weather pattern by

applying data

mining methods

Approval/

adjustments of

agro-met

bulletin by

experts

Delivery of online

agro-met advisory

bulletin to farmers and

stakeholders

Feedback through

stakeholders and field

visits by scientists

sends the same to farmers

eAgromet System

(Repository of

Agro met bulletin)

Source: Presentation of

CRIDA, Hyderabad

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Broad spectrum of the activities of different tier


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The design of eAgro-met system

The objectives are as follows:

• The system should be simple to use and understand.

• The efficiency of agro-met bulletin preparation process


• The efficiency of agro-met bulletin preparation process

should be increased.

• The agro-met bulletin should be searchable and

reusable.

•The system can be deployed in any location.

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Ongoing process of agro-met bulletin preparation:

Observation

In order to design the proposed system, it was

observed the current system of agro-met advice

preparation process and made the following

Capturing the type of weather deviation

After receiving weather prediction for next five days,

the agro-met expert captures the trend regarding how

weather parameters vary in the predicted week and

influence on the crop. Next, he/she tries to analyze past

Agro-met advice preparation


preparation process and made the following

observations.

The process of agro-met bulletin starts with the

receipt of weather prediction from IMD to AMFU.

At the AMFU, the following steps are followed to

prepare agro-met bulletins.

influence on the crop. Next, he/she tries to analyze past

week actual weather data of the region, and makes

effort to capture the influence of past week’s weather

data on the crops. Normally, it was observed that, the

agro-met expert try to understand how the weather of

past several weeks has influenced the crops and

possible influence of weather prediction on the given

crop. So, the agro-met expert understands the effect of

weather deviation (how weather trend vary over past

few weeks to the predicted weather) and starts the

process of preparing agro-met bulletin.

After grasping the affect of the weather

for past few weeks on the crop and the

possible effect of predicted weather, the

agro-met scientist prepares agro-met

bulletin, which contains the possible risk

mitigation steps by considering each

crop

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Concepts employed for designing e-Agro-met system

Kindly see the SRS doc. file page no. 25 to 59


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System Architecture DiagramAgro Met

Weather

Forecasting

Agro Met Advisory

Information

Collection

Information

DisseminationInformation


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CollectionDissemination

Information

Dissemination

Online

Information

updated every 24 hrs

Online

Information updated every 24

hrs

Information

Collection and

process by

Authorities and

Advisory created

Information Gathering

- Data from Automatic

weather collection center

- IMD Pune

- ISSRO

- ICAR

- Village Research Center

- Village Knowledge Center

- Met center

-Agro met field units

-KVK

Information Gathering

- Data from Automatic

weather collection center

- IMD Pune

- ISSRO

- ICAR

- Village Research Center

- Village Knowledge Center

- Met center

-Agro met field units

-KVK

Product Perspective

Memory Constraints

• The proposed system will be suitably performed on 512

MB and above primary memory.

• However, lower primary memory will not debar the

system from running but performance might not reach up


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system from running but performance might not reach up

to expected level.

• There is no such need in major secondary memory

availability, so it is not constrained.

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Product Perspective

Operations

• During the course of application usage, general user including

CAP and SAP users will not be required perform any operation

other than system features.

• Applications and portals will be hosted into the Data Centre in


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secured government domain.

• Normal maintenance operations such as backup will be

scheduled and automated and will be looked into by the system

administrators in case of any recovery is to be done.

• User initiations not needed. No additional data processing

operations by the users would be required except the system

interactive options.

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Product Perspective

Site Adaptation Requirements

The application proposed will be developed as a web based

application. For running the application the computer

system having a basic GUI based Operating System and


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system having a basic GUI based Operating System and

browsers will be required as minimum requirements along

with internet connectivity.

Skill manpower along with data entry operators at various

locations like centre, states and other offices at block level

will be required to upload and update the information/data.

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Product Perspective

User Characteristics

All users of the system, e.g. DAC, SAD, Researchers /

SAU, although are literate people excluding the farmers who


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may or may not be literate, yet training needs to be imparted

to all users of the system for effective use and timely

dissemination of information / data through the system.

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Product Perspective

Constraints

Regulatory Policies - As per Govt. Directives Hardware Limitations -

Dependency on connectivity, bandwidth constraints in different

regions across the country forWeb/Mobile based interface.

Interfaces to other applications - The portal needs to interact with


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Interfaces to other applications - The portal needs to interact with

different set of applications at state soil testing labs in different states.

Parallel Operation - Unexpected increase in the number of concurrent

user requests during peak transaction period.

Higher-Order Language requirements: The application will be in

vernacular languages and language is not constrained.

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Product Perspective

Assumptions and Dependencies

It is assumed that every State Testing Lab will have hardware

and software infrastructure setup like PC, UPS, printer, internet

connection, OS, required patched and anti-virus etc. User will


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connection, OS, required patched and anti-virus etc. User will

be provided with login & password facility.Data input and its

accuracy though will depend on the user.

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Product Perspective Specific requirements

External Interface Requirements

User Interfaces


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Web based Graphical User Interface (GUI) will be provided. Portal

will be completely menu driven and user friendly. The GUI consists

of the various Input forms, output screens along with the help files

provided as per the requirement.

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Hardware Interfaces

The following hardware interfaces are required to access the portal:

� Computer System: any x86 based computer having minimum 512 MB


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Computer System

RAM

� Printer: Dot matrix printer (132 columns) preferably a Laser Printer will

be needed to take the various outputs of the system time to time.

� UPS: 0.5 or 1 KVA Online UPS will be required to maintain the

uninterrupted power supply to computer and printer.

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Software Interfaces

At Client End:

�Base OS: Any Windows based operating system or any other system

having graphical user interface based Operating System


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having graphical user interface based Operating System

�Browser: Internet Explorer 6.0 or above, Mozilla Firefox, Google

Chrome or Opera

At Server End:

�Base OS –Will be decided later at the development stage

�Framework -Will be decided later at the development stage

�Technology Platform –Will be decided later at the development stage

�Database -Will be decided later at the development stage

�Browser – Internet Explorer 6.0 or above

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Communication Interfaces

The Application will work on Local Area Network (LAN) or Internet also.

Along with this, the system will interact the SMS Gateway server to push

SMS to different stakeholders and emails servers also to send the


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SMS to different stakeholders and emails servers also to send the

automated emails generated from the system to various stakeholders of the

system.

Any person having minimum of hardware configuration can access the

Agro-met Advisory Services through Internet. The Agro-met Advisory

Services should be optimized on any kind of browser across different

operating system platform. It should be accessible from mobile phone and

other communication devices supporting Internet access.

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Performance Requirements

Scalability Requirements

The system is scalable and can be rolled out to all the states

in Pan India after the pilot implementation in 7 states.


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in Pan India after the pilot implementation in 7 states.

As the basic processes having transactional flows like Soil

Testing Labs, Expert Advisory systems etc have same

processes throughout India.

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Software System Attributes

UsabilityThe Screens should be designed for ease of use by non technical users who do not have anycomputer knowledge. The GUI design shall be intuitive and task-based without anysuperfluous design.The design should adopt the following principles:

� Use relative font size so that a user can easily change overall font size from the browser

interface.

� Text equivalents should be given for all graphics.

� Application should function even if Javascript,CSS and Frames are turned off.


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� Application should function even if Javascript,CSS and Frames are turned off.

� Navigability –The user should be able to perform operations without having to navigate

through multiple pages/links – No operation should require more than 2 to 3 clicks.

� Familiarity – The system’s interfaces and navigations should be based on other

systems that the users are familiar with.

� Administration – The system should not require any administration tasks at the user

level. Interfaces should be available for administration/setup operations.

� Help - The system should come equipped with Computer based tutorial in English and

ten other languages for users to “self-Soilve” any navigability or operational doubts.� Standards Adherence – The system should adhere to commonly accepted standards of

web-design (such as acceptable size of web pages, minimal images, small style sheets

etc)

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Reliability

� From the application portal, it is expected that there shall not be any bug and

the system shall be tested on end cases to offer user a quality and reliable


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package.

� Due to any human interventions, the system should not behave abnormally.

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Availability

Application shall be up and running and must be available 24x7 and any one

shall be able to connect to it from anywhere. It shall trap all errors and prevent


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shall be able to connect to it from anywhere. It shall trap all errors and prevent

users from accessing unauthorized areas of the application. In case of

application or a hardware failure, the system should re-initiate immediately. In

case of a possible hardware failure or corruption of database the system

administrator should immediately restore the backup.

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Security - The system should have protection against

� Unauthorized creation/modification of data - through user name and

password authentication as defined for relevant user groups.

� Unauthorized viewing of data - through user name and password


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authentication as defined for relevant user groups.

� The software should adhere to security guidelines, standards and policies

prescribed by NIC’s Security Division and should be audited & certified

for compliance to these standards by Security Division before it is hosted

in Production Environment.

� The software should be protected against any unauthorized access to the

software.

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Maintainability

In order to ensure maintainability of the application, the following should be insured

� The application will be designed and developed based on the instructions

given by NIC / DAC. Software Code must be modular and well documented


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given by NIC / DAC. Software Code must be modular and well documented

� All the artifacts related to the software such as code, SRS, User Manual etc.

should be well documented and self-explanatory for any programmer to

understand. Detailed documentation shall be available at each stage for easy

comprehensions of the application system.

� All documents shall be prepared as per the defined documentation standards.

� The system administrator shall take regular back up of the database.

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Portablity

The software will be hosted / installed in the

environment as decided by NIC/DAC later on.

Service 4


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Language support

The system will support the entry and display of :

• Non-Latin scripts such as Hindi,Tamil ,Malayalam and other Indian vernacular languages

• The application will store data using Unicode representation.

� Nowadays there are many plug-in based applications are available in market, through which the

phrase written in one language can be translated in different languages. By using these plug-ins,

a portal that supports vernacular languages can be developed.


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a portal that supports vernacular languages can be developed.

� The database can developed in a base language for e.g. in English. This plug-in is then placed

between the database and the application. The language of the data is first selected in the

application and then data is entered through the form available in the application. This

information of the language and the data reaches the plug-in first. The plug-in understands the

language and then translates the data in to base (English) language and then stores the data in

the database. Similarly,when the information is retrieved from the database, it reaches the plug-in

first, meanwhile; the plug-in also has the information of the language in which the data in base

(English) language needs to be translated into, from the form available in the application. The

plug-in then translates this data in the language of the user’s choice and displays the same on

the form available in the application.

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Interoperability

The software will interoperate with other software applications which are being

developed under National e-Governance Program, Mission Mode Project, in

particular Central Agriculture Portal and State Agriculture Portal. The following are

the likely points of information exchange/reconciliation:

• State Codes/Names


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• State Codes/Names

• Panchayat Codes/Names

• Scheme Code/Names

• Agro met advisory nos. / date

• Agro met zone Name/ nos.

• Authority list

• Registered Mobile nos.

• Registered emails

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Other requirements

• Team of skilled resources needs to be deputed specifically to run the

system at centre and state level

• Regular updation from the side of Centre and State based on the


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• Regular updation from the side of Centre and State based on the

requirements

• Systems used for running the portal at different stakeholder’s place

needed to be capable to run the application smoothly.

• 24X7 internet connectivity is must to run the system smoothly.

• Supply of the stationary related to the system should be there based on

the requirements.

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Research

Institution sNo

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Feedback by Wayand District

discussions are going on about climatic change, Global warming, etc.

at National level/ global level.

It will be nice if such events are also considered and futuristic advice

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given to farmers on possible crops/ agricultural patters which the

farmer can think of planting in such changed climatic conditions. This

will help farmers

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Feedback by Department, Report of Science congress Kusat

Forecast on

• Rain

• Temperature

• Wind

• Cloud

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• Cloud

• Season change – time and stages of agriculture

• Human manned – Canal Irrigation

• And the Global warming and the changes that affects the

present predefined season

• Calamity prone like – Cyclone, Tsunami, Heavy Rain, Heavy

heat of sun, etc.

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Mechanism to inform

The mechanism narrated in the SRS is more or less

sufficient.

Also putting information boards in local language in public

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Also putting information boards in local language in public

places like library, market, School (of Seashore, Hilly area

and Near River) , Post Office, Grama Panchayat, etc is

beneficial to the public.

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Reasons

The changes in the climate affect the cropping plan. That also affects in fisheries as well. An

example reported from Science congress held on KUSAT as the fishes like “Mathi” and

“Ayala” changed there area from Arabian sea to Bengal Sea as the availability of their food

reduced due to the temperature raise in Arabian Sea. Like that Wild Animals moved from

forest to village (Report from Assam, Karnataka). The same is happens to birds as well

(World news’s).

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The nature’s changes first of all affect and read by the creatures of the nature. But human’ssense lost in this area as he is looking for the modern technologies to get information. But it

gives him late news or a wrong one.

So a change in nature should changes his agriculture pattern as well as fishing. So the

forecast on the listed item is so important. A special importance should give to Global

warming and its effects.

The changes in cloud and wind are worse affecting in Mango, Orange, Apple, Banana, etc

and Fisheries.

Information about the irrigation and water availability is necessary to Agriculture.

So an equal importance is given to the said forecast also.

• Everything is paper based which is cumbersome to

maintain

• Requires lots of manual work

Summary of existing system


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• Scope for errors

• Retrieval of data in a desired way is difficult

• No common platform is available to collect

individual’s feedback and opinion

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• Proposed solution is to use web enabled online

application.

• Not only user friendly but also reduces lot of manual work

• Reduces scope for errors

•

Summary of proposed system


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• Provides 24/7 based services

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Technology Involved in proposed system


• Efficient content management using open source technology

• Web based application with 3Tier architecture.

• This application can be used on any platform , it is basically

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designed in platform independent language.

• Flexible to enhance the application.

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Application provides

• Easy access to information

• Maintains integrity of information

• Opinion poll – better decisions


• Opinion poll – better decisions

• Feedback helps for improvement

• Enhanced further to suit requirements

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