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Express Weather is working in the field of Agriculture, it strives to mitigate the risks involved in the agriculture domain thereby making the lives of the farmer easy.
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Express Weather is a unique social enterprise providing bespoke weather
solutions for the agricultural sector. Our vision is to facilitate the
transformation of agriculture into an efficient, productive, market oriented sector.
Since our inception 5 years ago, we have been at the forefront of innovation and
have successfully leverage technology to design long-term, transformative solutions
that tackle issues plaguing the agricultural domain.
Our solutions aim to minimise the volatility in crop yield and create forward
linkages to other sectors. Our ultimate goal is to deliver better financial outcomes
to the most vulnerable stakeholders at the bottom of the pyramid.
Weather is one of the
most critical but
extraneous factors of
agricultural production.
Weather risks are one of the
biggest drivers of volatility in
agricultural yield. While
extreme incidents like
droughts or floods are obvious
menaces, even nominal
fluctuations in basic
parameters, such as temperature and precipitation, can destabilise farm incomes,
food security and in turn, hamper the socio-economic development of a nation.
Weather risk andSustainable Agriculture
The most obvious impact of weather volatility is on crop yields. However, the
performance of livestock farms, the turnover of crop processors, the use of chemicals
and fertilisers and the demand for many food products also depend on weather.
Unless actively managed, weather risks have the potential to make the society
more vulnerable to economic shocks – both short and long term. Conventional
approaches to mitigate weather risk – including bailout, debt forgiveness and
emergency relief – usually concentrate on the consequence of the crises. However,
a proactive frontline initiative designed to disseminate accurate weather data
coupled with sector knowledge can empower all stakeholders to manage and
mitigate the risks and to build resilience.
We are focused on
Developing robust meteorological capability by implementing appropriate
infrastructure and data management practices to help manage and mitigate
weather related shocks in agriculture.
Directly empowering farmers to mitigate risks in production by offering ultra
high-resolution, sector specific, bespoke weather information and ancillary
value added services.
Leveraging meteorological expertise and technology to develop and
disseminate interactive, mobile based crop-specific, agro-meteorological
advisories that will allow stakeholders across the entire value chain to realise
better commercial results.
Creating atransformative eco-system
Real time observation
of weather requires a
network of integrated
systems able to measure
many weather parameters
simultaneously.
We have several years’
experience in
implementing and managing state of the art, robust, ground
observatory networks in different terrains.
While we customise our offering based on client requirements,
our observatories comprises of Automatic Weather Stations,
Agromet stations, and Telemetric Rain Gauges among others.
We support our infrastructure with implementation of
advanced data management practices, that includes a superior
data management backbone under HPC environment and a
three layer data back-up service. These allow farmers,
agronomists, and researchers to efficiently monitor most of the
conditions that affect crop phenology.
WeatherInfrastructureServices
We have experience in running multiple Numerical Weather Prediction
(NWP) system to generate location specific weather forecasts for the
agricultural sector. Our team has deep expertise in running multiple models
like WRF, USL at various resolutions and nesting arrangements, as per client
requirements. Under HPC environment we analyse global, regional and local
data set with very high degree of accuracy.
Key features of our service include
Location specific, hour by hour current and weather forecasts for 7 days.
Ultra high resolution forecast over a smaller area
High degree of accuracy and superior data quality through creation of
customized environment at local level and improved data fusion
techniques
Customized data analysis and representation through multiple bespoke
channels (web, mobile applications
Real time, online validation assistance
Weather Forecasting Services
Our highly talented meteorologists are exposed to various state-of-art global
numerical models and have created customized environment at local-level to
deliver superior forecast quality to our end-users.
On the Input side, we consider primary and secondary data from multiple
observatories located on land, ocean and in space.
Customization of model &integrated data assimilation
“FARMNEED saved my crop from cold wave conditions in December, January. I
was informed in advance about the expected dip in temperature which helped me
making necessary arrangements to save my crop”
Balmik Kalunge
Grape-grower, Maharashtra, India
“Express Weather service on weather and Agromet advisory is helping
horticulturist on cost cutting, plant protection and for quality management. Me
personally and my organization NABARD supports such innovative service.”
N. Shivkumar
Assistant General Manager, NABARD, India
“Weather linked decision support system helps grape growers on input cost
management and disease management. Express Weather provides accurate weather
forecast, that helps to run the DSS successfully.”
Dr. S. D. Sawant
Director, NRC Grape, India
In line with our strategic intent to provide
meaningful weather data and custom-designed
value added services to the key stakeholders in
the agricultural sector, we have created an
innovative platform (Farmneed™) to effectively
manage and mitigate weather related risks during
the life-cycle of the crop.
Farmneed™ also helps in creating forward
linkages with the downstream stakeholders at no
additional cost.
Key features of our Farmneed™
platform include
Geo-tagging of farmers and their plots
allowing crop and location specific highly
accurate observed and forecasted weather
data, disease incidence prediction and alerts.
Bespoke agro-meteorological advisories at
plot level resolution.
Interactive nature of platform allowing
farmers to remotely connect with multiple
stakeholders including research institutes,
Input companies, Commodity traders etc. on
a near-real time basis.
Veritable repository of farm-level data
tracking crop-lifecycle stages, Input
applications, Disease infestations.
Farmneed People’s voicefarmneed
TM
As Express Weather expands its footprint in India, discussions are on in other marketsin Africa and Europe to replicate our success story.
Expanding footprint
Express Atmospheric Science & Research Private Limited
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