A two week training was organized by Armstatehydromet Service and EC/FAO Programme on linking information and decision-making to improve food security 2010-2012. The training was conducted by a national consultant, Hovik Sayadyan, Lecturer of the Yerevan state University.

The consultant trained the participants in GIS and its application in agro-meteorology,  which will contribute to improving crop forecasting system in Armenia.  Improvement of crop forecasting system is one of the components of the Programme which contributes to the objective of the Programme – to support government’s priorities to reduce food insecurity and poverty by improving the quality and sharing of information across institutions.

The training was organised for the stakeholders of the Programme (producers and users of agromet data),  namely RA Ministry of Agriculture and the Armstatehydromet as the main collector of agromet data.

At the end of the training the participants had acquired sufficient knowledge and skills to perform the following tasks:

• Produce and export thematic maps including labeling and legend insertion into Agromet Bulletin.
• Perform interpolation of the main agrometereological variables (rainfall, temperature, crop yield) using the Inverse of Distance method.
• Extract area of statistics for specific shp files (Marz administrative division).
• Overlay the Digital Evaluation Model layers into maps.
• Produce a Mask to mask-out areas that are not interesting (i.e. non agricultural areas).
• Import data from Excel files.
• Import NDVI from METOP-AVHRR (www.metops10.vito.be) into GIS. 

Location

Public cible

Théme

Objectifs

Objective of the training was to get participants acquainted with geographic information systems and their application in agriculture. The training provided both theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in data collection, database management and computer mapping in order to work independently with ArcGIS software, GIS project design and management.

Contacts

Ms. Francoise Trine

Programme Coordinator
EC/FAO Programme on Linking information and decision-making to improve food security
E-mail: Francoise.Trine@fao.org

Ms. Mane Tapaltsyan
Country Coordinator
EC/FAO Programme on Linking information and decision-making to improve food security
E-mail: Mane.Tapaltsyan@fao.org

Mr. Hovik Sayadyan
Armenian state Agrarian University
E-mail: hovik_s@yahoo.com

Ms.  Valentina Grigoryan
Advisor to Director of Armstatehydromet Service
E-mail: valent_g2000@yahoo.com

Ms. Heriknaz Lemberyan
Ministry of Agriculture
E-mail: erika5arm@yahoo.com

Formations connexes

Documents

Liens

Training report