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Weather alerts for farmers
Weather alerts for farmers. Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on June 18, launched a free SMS service called ‘NOWCAST’. The application will provide alerts and updates on extreme weather conditions such as thunder, hailstorms, etc. to over one crore registered farmers on their mobile pho
Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on June 18, launched a free SMS service called ‘NOWCAST’. The application will provide alerts and updates on extreme weather conditions such as thunder, hailstorms, etc. to over one crore registered farmers on their mobile phones.
Besides, a web-portal on crop insurance was also unveiled to create awareness and encourage more farmers to insure their crops taking advantage of existing schemes. The web portal, however, has been launched in English.
"The SMS warnings on extreme weather conditions like thunderstorm, hail, and squall will help farmers take precautionary measures as needed and feasible," the Agriculture Minister said. The free SMS alerts, to be sent in English, Hindi and regional languages as per farmers' request, will be issued to over one crore farmers whose mobile phones are already registered on the government's mKisan portal.
More benefits from the application:
- The free SMS service would be sent in English, Hindi and other regional languages as per farmer’s choice
- The alerts on extreme weather conditions will be provided every three hours
- These alerts would be sent to over one crore farmers whose mobile phones arealready registered with the government’s mKisan portal
- The weather conditions and alerts will be taken from 146 weather stations of the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD).
- The extreme weather conditions and reports will be moved to the mKisan portal using a web service. (www.farmer.gov.in/insurance)
- To tackle this situation IMD has set up 17 Doppler Radars which feed information into Weather Stations regarding extreme weather situations like thunderstorm, squall, hail etc.
- IMD Director General, L.S. Rathore said, “These alerts are already available on IMD website. Since the warnings are valid for three hours on the website, farmers could not get the information in time because of limitations in accessing the IMD website at farm level.”
- Warnings from the mKisan portal will be automatically disseminated to farmers located at various district and block level, by SMS.
