FAO Pakistan arranged a four day training on pyWAPOR, a tool developed by FAO allowing the calculation of Evapotranspiration (ET) anywhere on the globe, including Pakistan. The training enabled 25 different stakeholders understand the ET concept and estimate ET at different spatial scales using remote sensing data or satellite images.

The training helped in building national/provincial governments’ capacities in transitioning toward digital agriculture and for analyzing climate smart data using geospatial technologies the national/ government capacities in transitioning toward digital agriculture and for analyzing climate smart data using geospatial technologies.

Training participants represented: Punjab On Farm Water Management; Punjab Irrigation Department; Punjab Agriculture Department Extension; Pakistan Meteorological Department; Global Change Impact Studies Centre; Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources; Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Agriculture, Multan; Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan; University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore; Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering & Information Technology , Rahim Yar Khan and University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.

FAO is undertaking a GCF funded project on “Transforming the Indus Basin with Climate Resilient Agriculture and Water Management”. The project lays emphasis on building capacities of national and provincial stakeholders to make use of data, geospatial techniques and other IT tools for making climate smart decisions for agriculture. The training on pyWAPOR is part of a series of trainings being conducted under the project. Prior to this training, three other trainings have already been held in the series: (1) Python for Evapotranspiration Estimates, (2) Basics on GIS and RS, and (3) Evapotranspiration and Basic Hydrology.