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VASAT in Action

smile on the face of a farmer from Adakkal mandal has become archaics.

For the past 20 years Adakkal mandal has been severely affected by drought. VASAT strives to bring about preparedness among rural communities in this area in partnership with women self-help groups. Preparedness is better than relief.<Read More>

 

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Impact of Drought in EastAfrica 2009

 

Soft Semantics

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Featured Project

VASAT is involved in developing Micro-level drought vulnerability prediction maps and local long range forecast for rainfall of Adakkal Mandal from last three years. Read More

Click on the scenario to view the drought vulnerability maps for year 2009

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Click to see the long range prediction for Adakkal Mandal maps for year 2009

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Drought

a failed paddy crop in Adakkal Mandal, 
Photo : Vijayraj

How can we mitigate drought?

The Crop based strategies for mitigating drought are:

  • Land planning system
  • Soil management techiques
  • Crop management techniques
  • Integrated watershed management
  • Other water management technique
  • Other practices

Read more on Coping with Drought

Agri-Knowledge Consortium

Project consortium on Agricultural Knowledge Management in India.

Recent VASAT Publications

  • Disaster Preparedness using IT Tools: Case Studies on the use of ICT and GIS Derived tools for Micro-Level Drought Preparedness. Download   (PDF 2.65MB)

  • Village Knowledge Centers and the Use of GIS-derived Products in Enhancing Micro-level Drought Preparedness: a Case study from South Central India. Download   (PDF 853KB)

  • Towards a novel content organisation in agriculture using semantic technologies: a study with Topic Maps as a tool. Download   (PDF 1.5MB)

  • Use of Semantic Wiki Tool to Build a Repository of Reusable Information Objects in Agricultural Education and Extension: results from a preliminary study Download   (PDF 1.6MB)

  • Content Reusability in eLearning - ICRISAT’s experiments with LMS. Download   (PDF 55KB)

  • Improving Micro-level Drought Preparedness using GIS products.. Download   (PDF 1.3MB)