National Agricultural Drought Watch

Developed by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in collaboration with Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, the National Agricultural Drought Watch is an integrated information platform linking weather and climate data with agriculture practices in the region. The platform provides data analysis support to professionals responsible for developing agro-met advisories for government agencies and farmers. It provides information on the in-season drought situation and outlook. It also provides baselines on crop type maps and farming practices calendars valid at the district level, and multiple indices evapotranspiration, precipitation rate, standardized precipitation index, soil moisture, and temperature for droughts and seasonal weather outlooks at the national and regional levels. These can inform short- to medium-term agro-advisories. Users can already explore historical time-series data on the five indices over 18 years aggregated in decadal, monthly, and quarterly sets. The system provides 9 months forecast for various parameters.

Lead (category)

Multi-partners

Name of initiative lead (and partners)

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in collaboration with Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development and ICIMOD under the SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya (SERVIR-HKH) Initiative.

Categories of Digital initiative deliverables

Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery

ICT products/solutions and services by category

Digital Agriculture

Non ICT products and services (deliverables)

Business and governance structure

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in collaboration with Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development and ICIMOD under the SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya (SERVIR-HKH) Initiative. It is supported by NASA and USAID. 

DI ICT-deliverables format

Cloud-based

Interactive data exchanges

Satellite imagery

Web-based platform

Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)

Farmers

Government

Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders

Digital Initiative development Stage

Fully operational - Growing and expanding stage

Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries

Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)

National

All over Bhutan

On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)

Main DI webpage

Link to Digital village

Link to Digital solution