Information and knowledge management
• Agriculture resource center for strengthening agriculture extension and advisory system
• Climate tool box for agriculture to help farmers to adapt to climate change and to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases
• SMS based weather alert system for farmers
Promote sustainable agro-ecosystem
• Climate resilient farming practice through improved seed varieties, change in crop or improved irrigation system
• Post-catastrophe support to farmers to rebuild better agriculture system
• System of rice intensification (SRI) to increase the rice productivity while reducing water consumption and methane emission
Promote index based crop insurance
• Prefeasibility assessment for weather based index insurance and area yield insurance i.e. data availability, vulnerability and risk profiling of farmers, weather risk, market potential, legal regulatory framework and stakeholders
• Pilot and launch of weather index insurance through setting up distribution system, collection of weather and agriculture data, product design and pricing, promotion through educational programs, contract preparation and payout calculation
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