• The All India Coordinated Research Project on Agrometeorology (AICRPAM) was initiated by ICAR in May 1983 with the establishment of the Coordinating Cell at the Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad and 12 Cooperating Centres at various State Agricultural Universities. After a detailed review and evaluation of the progress made by the project and realizing the importance of agrometeorological research support for enhancing food production, ICAR had extended the Cooperating Centres to an additional 13 Agricultural Universities of the country w.e.f. April 1995. More
Review Meeting of AICRPAM


Recent Achievements
  • Developed Dynamic Crop Weather Calender (DCWC)-A DSS for sowing and irrigation decision
  • Developed GridEarth - A software for gridded data extraction, visualization & analysis
  • Developed Dry Spell Index (DSI)
  • Developed the concept "Agro-climatic onset of crop season"
  • Evaluated the Percent Available Soil Moisture (PASM) for drought declaration
  • Developed a model for frost forecasting
  • Delineated hailstorm hotspots of India
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