Micro level weather based agromet-advisories and economic impact assessment of cotton crop for Sirsa district, Haryana

Abstract

Agro advisory services based on weather forecast helps in improve the income of farmers by suggesting timely suitable operation to increase the production. Study was carried out on comparison and estimation of benefits to micro level users i.e. agromet-advisory services (AAS) and Non-AAS farmers of Farwain Kalan village in Sirsa district of Haryana. Continuous and subsequently collected the information after issue the AAB and adoption of agromet advisory advised which have been followed by farmers and the impact of agromet-advisory services for cotton was critically evaluated. Further, assessing the impacts of AAS to consider a total of 117 agromet advisories bulletins (AAB) were disseminated to selected farmers’ in respective seasons. In the case study results indicates that agromet advisories followed by adopter farmer as compared to non-adopter farmer can reduce the cost of cultivation also help in increase the net profit for the cotton crop cultivation. Results indicates that B:C (Benefit Cost ratio) was higher who follow AAS (1.71) than Non-AAS (1.33) for the year 2017. The economic impact assessment of AAB for cotton, shown that B:C ratio of AAS adopted farmers were 1.51 higher as compared to the non-AAS farmers 1.06 in the crop season 2018. The higher B:C ratio obtained in 2017 as compared to 2018 crop season. On the based results the application of micro level agromet advisory services is a useful tool for enhancing the production with effective and higher earnings to the farmers.