The National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) is a flagship project of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) launched in March, 2011 in the XI Plan Period to comprehensively address the issue of climate change. The main objective of the project AICRPAM-NICRA project is to strengthen Agromet advisory services at microlevel and to make the advisories available to more number of farmers. The project was initiated with the following objectives:
1. To create weather and crop information acquisition and monitoring system through AWS and Field Information Facilitators’ (FIF) network.
2. Delineating hotspots for weather anomalies at micro level through benchmark survey and climatic analysis at selected districts/villages/sites for principal cropping/farming systems.
3. Quantification of crop responses to weather and its extremes by integrating statistical and dynamic modeling.
4. Customizing micro-level agromet advisories and their dissemination through ICTs.
5. Development of strategies to combat weather extremes through field research.
6. Conduct awareness/training programs on climate change, and workshops for capacity building on agromet advisories.