Meghdoot: Mobile App to Assist Farmers
- The Ministries of Earth Sciences and Agriculture have launched a mobile application that will provide location, and crop and livestock-specific weather-based agro advisories to farmers in local languages.
- It has been developed by experts from the India Meteorological Department and Indian Institute of Tropical meteorology and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
- Initially, the service would be available for 150 districts in different parts of the country. It will be extended to rest of the country in a phased manner over the next one year.
- It will provide forecast relating to temperature, rainfall, humidity, and wind speed and direction, which play critical roles ....
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