National Agricultural Drought Watch
Bhutan
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)
Link to Digital village
Link to Digital solution