An integrated method for agricultural drought mitigation, the National Agricultural Drought Assessment and Monitoring system (NADAMS) operationally used in India ( Rao, 1996) forms one of the strategies for sustainable agriculture development. NADAMS integrates NOAA8 satellite derived temporal spectral vegetation index(VI) and landuse/ land cover data and ground meteorological station observed rainfall and aridity anomaly with ancillary crop cultural information through GIS, to provide a realistic assessment of agricultural droughts