Implementation of weather forecasting based agricultural advisory services can increase crop yields by 7-10%

Research by the BRRI Agricultural Meteorology and Crop Modeling Group has shown that the implementation of weather forecasting based agricultural advisory services can increase crop yields by 7-10%, reduce production costs by about 15% and increase gross income by 31-36%.

However, now only 5% of the country's paddy farmers are availing weather forecasting based agricultural advisory services.

Researchers claim that according to the forecast based agricultural advice, the yield of paddy will increase by at least 7%, which will add 0.17 million tons of paddy to the national food basket.

If weather forecasting based agricultural advisory services are properly implemented in the entire paddy production system, so in this case by investing one Taka, the income will be 51-73 Taka.

|Source: Online/TA