
19/08/2025
🚨 New Research Alert! 🌾🌦️
Optimizing drought and crop yield monitoring in Vietnam’s Srepok River basin 🇻🇳
Drought is a serious natural disaster that harms crop yields. This study identified the best meteorological drought and vegetation indices for monitoring drought and predicting yields of coffee and rice — key crops in the basin.
📘 Article title: Determining suitable meteorological drought and vegetation indices for monitoring drought and crop yield in Srepok River basin, Vietnam
📚 Journal: Agriculture and Natural Resources (formerly Kasetsart Journal: Natural Science)
🗂️ Volume 59, Issue 2, Mar–Apr 2025
📄 Article No.: 590209
🔢 ISSN: 2452-316X (0075-5192)
📖 Read the full article: doi.org/10.34044/j.anres.2025.59.2.09
🔍 Highlights:
• 🌦️ SPI outperformed EDI in linking drought to crop yields
• 🌱 VHI, TCI, VCI correlated well with meteorological drought indices
• 🕐 SPI6–VHI best for drought monitoring in dry season (Feb–May)
• ☕ SPI5 (9 months before harvest) effective for coffee yield forecasting
• 🍚 SPI5 (3 months before harvest) effective for rice yield forecasting