Mobile Based Agro-Advisory System funded by MeitY, GOI, New Delhi

“Mobile Based Agro-Advisory” for farmers of  College of Fisheries, Tripura, College of Vety. Sc. And AH, Mizoram, College og Hort. And Forestry, Arunachal Pradesh, College of Agriculture, Manipur, College of Post Graduate Studies in Agril. Sc., Meggalaya  under the coordination and monitoring of the Directorate of Extension Education, CAU, Imphal. The project is financed by the MeitY, GOI, and implemented by DIC, New Delhi and CAU, Imphal. Registrations of farmers are being done through the toll-free no. 1800-102-3141 and already registered farmers details were entered into IIDS to complete the registration process.

  1. Activities of College of Vety. SC. & A.H. Aizwal , Mizoram :

 

Deliverables/ Milestones

Target (From April,

2020-March 2021)

Achievement

(As on 31st March 2021)

Detailed Farmer Registration

Farmers to be registered= 2800

Farmers registered = 2898 nos. of Farmers

Awareness Building / Sensitization Programs among Farmers

 

11 Nos.

 

11 Nos.

No. of Participants= 533

Training to project Staff

 

2 Nos.

2 (1 Training and 1 Workshop for project staff and expert)

Animal Health Camps

3 Nos.

8 Nos.

No. of Participants= 476 nos.

 

 

Content development in Animal Husbandry, Agri/Horti

 

 

 

11 Nos

11 Nos. (African Swine Fever- 2 (English and Mizo), Leaflet on PRRS-2 (English and Mizo), Leaflet on Cabbage-1 (Mizo), Handbook on diseases of dog-1 (English), Common Diseases of Livestock- 2 (English and Mizo), Vaccination Chart/Card, Mastitis in Dairy Cows, Management of Broiler chicks)

 

SMS (text & Voice)

 

16 Nos.

ü   SMS (Text & Voice) created= Text- 193, Voice132, Advisory-5208

Small Videos

4 Nos.

ü 6 Nos. o case studies, pig farming

Livestock Disease/Crop Calendar

1 No.

ü 1 Crop Calendar

 

Expected No. of Advisories to be provided

Expected No. of advisories to be provided (Pull based and pushed based)

=175,000

Total Advisories (Pull based and pushed based) = 595373

(Pull Based Call=14244,

Pushed based Text and Voice message consumed= (Text= 402617, Voice=178512)

 

Health camps under M4agri

 

 

 

Awaness programme

Online training programme

  1. Activities of College of Agriculture, Imphal :

Sl.No

Activities

Target

Achievements

Deviation clarifications

1.

Awareness Building/ Sensitization

20

20

 

2.

Training to farmers (Agri/ AH/ Fisheries)

1

1

 

3.

Baseline/ Need assessment report.

Not Specified

71 farmers as trial and 25 villages were covered.

As there was a delay in the finalization of the baseline survey form format we could not carry out the survey.

4.

Registration of farmers

1400

1601

 

5.

No. of calls received

4000-5000

432

As 80% Manipur farmer’s mainly grow rice and as it is not the season now we are getting very less no. of calls from Agriculture domain.

6.

No. of calls made

1200-1500

481

 

7.

No. of text SMS pushed/

SMS consumed

11500

1669/ 70217

 

8.

No. of voice Message Pushed/

SMS consumed

1500

11/6876

 

9.

No. of Advisory message/

SMS consumed

Not Specified

226/ 940

 

10.

No. of Informative Message/

SMS consumed

Not Specified

63/ 63759

 

11.

Content Development/ Manuals/ Crop Calendar (Agri/AH/Fishery)

1

1

 

 

Awareness and Sensitization Programme at Thoubal Khunou (Thoubal)

 

Awareness and Sensitization Programme at Luwangsangbam (Imphal East)

 

Awareness and Sensitization Programme at Waiton (Imphal East) on 21/12/20

 

Awareness and Sensitization Programme at Lamdeng (Imphal West) on 22/12/20

Activities of College of Fisheries , Tripura

  • Continuous proactive calls (5417) and follow-up (3612) call to the farmers were made covering all four districts on regular basis for awareness and sensitization of the registered farmers about the project.
  • Preparation of different types of content for the farmers is in progress.
  • Different type of text and voice message pushed to the registered farmers for sensitizing about the different topics.
  • Total 225 no of text message consuming 1030841 SMS and 86 no of voice message consuming 142179 SMS and 17513 transactional messages were pushed by PI, Matsya Varta on different important topic related to COVID19 and other advisories recommended by CAU, Imphalto all the registered farmers of seven different districts of Tripura.
  • 2823 advisories in total were provided in pull based format.
  • Necessary modifications in the IVRS registration format were done with help of DIC, New Delhi.
  • Total 3523 farmers were registered in IIDS till March 2021. A total 1911 inbound calls and 9029 outbound calls were completed from April 2020 to till March 2021.
  • A total of 20 Awareness and Sensitization Programmes were organized at different villages among the four districts and a total of 713 farmers attended the programme.
  • A total of 2 Health Camps were organized at different villages among the four districts and a total of 88 farmers attended the programme.
  • A total of 11 Training programmes were organized and a total of 183 participants attended the programme.
  • 2 project farmers participated in CAU Regional Agri Fair’2021 at Central Farm, CAU, Imphal, Manipur, held on 8-10 March’2021.
  1. Activities of College of Post Graduate Studies in Agricultural Science, Meghalaya:

 

S.No.

 

Milestones

(As of 31.03.2021)

Achievements

1.

a. Recruitment

Achieved

 

 

b. Procurement

a.      Laptops (2 #)

b.     Desktop – High End (1 #)

c.      Image Processing

Software (1#)

2.

Identification of Study Sites

Achieved

3.

Awareness programme of DHaBReT

6 awareness programs

conducted

4.

Baseline Survey

386

5.

Customization / Enhancement of IIDS Farm

registration / Language / Farm History

Under testing

6.

Registration of 500 Sample farmers for UAV Based Crop Mapping & Monitoring (100 each for Cabbage, Cauliflower, Paddy, Ginger, Turmeric and

Pineapple)

460

7.

Mobile App for tracing of Farmers Field

Under testing

8.

Establishment of Agro Advisory Lab

Achieved

9.

Flight Planning of Identified 6 Crop

Achieved

10.

a.      Tracing of Farmers’ Field

b.     Demarcation of 30 Cabbage farmlands at Thynroit Village, East-Khasi Hills district

a.      Under progress

b.     Achieved

11.

a.      UAV Data Acquisition & Data Processing for Point Clouds/ DSM/ DTM / Ortho Photo/ Vegetation Index.

b.     Generation of TIN, Slope and Aspect maps of Thynroit (Cabbage), Mawkriah (Cauliflower), Thandnongiaw (Paddy & Ginger), Kdonghulu (Paddy & Ginger), and

Liarkhla villages (Paddy & Ginger).

 

a.      Achieved

(Continuous Process)

 

Achieved

 

12.

Ground Truthing – Sample Data Collection + Correlation with UAV Data Outputs

 

Achieved

(Continuous Process)

 

13.

Analysis of NDVI & Advisory to Farmers

 

– Do –

 

14.

a. Generated indices for determining the following soil attributes of cabbage fields of Thynroit village:

i.  Soil Organic Carbon (SOC)

ii.  Soil Moisture Content (SMC)

iii. Nitrogen

iv.  Phosphorus

v.  Potassium

 

b. Collection of soil samples from Nongkynrih and Mawlieh Turmeric villages of West Jaintia Hills for validation of indices generated from UAV

data w.r.t soil attributes as mentioned above.

 

a.     Achieved

(Continuous Process)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Achieved

 

Awareness of farmers of Thynroit village, CRDB Mawkynrew, East Khasi Hills District

Awareness of farmers of Liarkhla village, CRDB Bhoirymbong, Ri-bhoi District

Registration of farmers under DHaBReT at Mawkriah Village, CRDB Mawphlang, East Khasi Hills

UAV data acquisition at Thadnongiaw, Kdonghulu and Liarkhla villages of CRDB Bhoirymbong, Ri-bhoi District

Demarcation of individual farm land of registered farmer from UAV images at Thynroit Village, CRDB Mawkynrew, East Khasi Hills District

Laboratory Analysis of Soil Samples in CPGS-AS Lab