Perception of Farmers towards Agromet Advisory Service

Weather and climate determines the crop productivity as it influences growth and development of crops before and during the cropping season. Due to climate change and its variability with time, farmers incur crop losses for being unaware of the aberrant weather events. The present study was conducted to know the perception of farmers towards Agromet Advisory Service (AAS) in terms of effectiveness and usefulness from farmer's point of view. A group of 120 farmers following AAS regularly provided by DAMU Valsad were selected randomly. It is concluded that, AAS provided twice in a week was useful for farmers as it provided effective communication media for transfer of climate resilient technology to effectively plan agricultural operation. It is provides basic, timely and accurately pre-information of different climate and weather conditions of different crops of that particular area.