Ministry/Department : Ministry of Agriculture (With back end support from Ministry of Earth Sciences i.e. IMD)
Objective: To provide timely alerts on extreme weather conditions to farmers
Project:
- IMD already gives weather forecasts but farmers in the affected areas could not get this information on time hence nowcast launched
- Under this initiative, the extreme weather data originated from IMD is being moved to mKisan portal using a web service.
- From mKisan Portal warnings regarding extreme weather conditions are automatically and instantaneously transmitted by SMS to farmers located in affected district/blocks.
- This technological break-through is a collaborative effort between mKisan Portal developed by DAC, weather technologies adopted by IMD and GIS Portal of NIC
Factual Information:
- Started in 2015