Director, Soil & Water Conservation Department with officials after releasing the booklet on August 6.
Kohima, August 6 (MExN): An updated version of meteorological data of Nagaland 2019-2020 published by the Soil Survey & Land Use Planning Wing was released by K Zhekheto Awomi, Director, Soil & Water Conservation Department in a short programme on August 6.
The programme started with opening remarks on importance of Agro-meteorology by Rongsenlemzung, Deputy Director & schematic officer of the wing, a press release from the department informed.
Documentation of meteorological data is necessitated by growing importance of applied meteorology in agriculture which is being witnessed in the wake of global climate change. It may be mentioned that the Department currently has 17 Meteorological stations spread all over Nagaland, the first being installed in 1981 which records weather parameters on a daily basis.
Besides supplying the data to a host of offices every day, it is also regularly availed by many users such as researchers from all over India, Scientists, Engineers, Land and Water User Departments etc for various project formulations, construction activities, preparation of action plans, assessing of loss/damage due to natural disaster/calamities etc.
Earlier, Automatic Rain Gauge installed at the Directorate compound was also inspected by the Department officials.
