Title

User manual: How to use Agvisely to generate climate service advisories for livestock in Bangladesh

Author

T.S Amjath-Babu

Timothy Joseph Krupnik

Access level

Open Access

Summary or description

The Agvisely digital service for livestock integrates location-specific meteorological forecasts generated by the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) with species specific biological thresholds for weather variables (Temperature, rainfall, and temperature-humidity index (THI). When a biological threshold is to be breached in next five days' forecast, the system automatically generates location-specific management advice for livestock farmers. Advisories are based on a decision tree developed by the Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute (BLRI) and CIMMYT. Agvisely is a smart phone app and web-based service developed by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) CIMMYT with the support of USAID, securing the Food Systems of Asian Mega- Deltas (AMD) for Climate and Livelihood Resilience and the Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA) initiatives in collaboration with Bangladesh Dept. of Agricultural Extension (DAE) and Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD).

Publish date

2023

Publication type

Book

Information Resource

Format

application/pdf

Language

English

Coverage

Bangladesh

Audience

Researchers

Source repository

Repositorio Institucional de Publicaciones Multimedia del CIMMYT

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