The 14 States covered under NADAMS are Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh. The drought assessment for 14 States is carried out at District level. However, out of these 14 States in 5 States (Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Telangana) drought assessment is carried out at Sub-District level.
The agriculture drought assessment and monitoring, under NADAMS project, is carried out using multiple satellite data, rainfall, soil moisture index, potential sowing area, irrigation percentage and ground observations. A logical modeling approach is followed to classify the districts into Alert, Watch and Normal during June, July and August and Severe, Moderate and Mild drought conditions during September and October. The monthly Drought Assessment Reports are communicated to all concerned State and national level agencies and also kept on the MNCFC website (www.ncfc.gov.in).NADAMS project provides an early assessment of drought situation and thus helps the State Governments to take remedial measures and also use this information for drought declaration. This way, the assessments provided by NADAMS Project are beneficial for the farmers. But since the benefits accrued to farmers are indirectly as a result of remedial measures taken by the State Governments, so there is no system of collecting actual number of farmers benefited. Hence, no such information is being maintained.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya in Lok Sabha today.At the end of the season, the drought information is used as input in the drought declaration process. NRSC team makes special presentation to the MoA and to the States upon their intent. Way forward: Research activities related to improvement of agricultural drought assessment are carried out at NRSC from time to time. In addition to new operational products in the project, a number of research publications have resulted from these activities. With the operational component of NADAMS project is being carried out at “ Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre (MNCCF)” from kharif 2012, NRSC team now enhanced the time spent on Research activities for enhanced products. These activities include development of an integrated approach using multiple parameters, development of methodology for crop sown area estimation, agricultural drought vulnerability assessment, soil water balance analysis, use of Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), use of SWIR based indices for crop stress detection, drought impact assessment, drought early warning etc.
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