Govt allots funds to usher WINDS of change in agri sector
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The fund released is out of Rs 60 crore allocated for the project in the current fiscal.
Principal secretary, agriculture, Ravinder said that under the project, weather stations and rain gauges would be installed at the block and panchayat levels, respectively.
Under the project, the state agriculture department will set up at least 308 automatic weather stations in selected blocks and around 55,570 rain gauges across the gram panchayats.
Officials said that WINDS uses advanced weather data analytics to provide farmers and other stakeholders with actionable weather information for agriculture.
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ith precise weather forecasting, farmers will be able to prepare for extreme weather events like droughts, floods, and storms. Ravinder said this will also help in estimating the loss caused to horticultural crops during extreme weather conditions.
Besides boosting productivity, the measure will also aid in deciding crop insurance and other agriculture-related programmes.
This will be in addition to 518 weather stations which are in the process of being constructed by the revenue and the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). The two departments have also joined hands in installing as many as 2,132 rain gauge equipment to ascertain the quantum of rain and determine the local rainfall pattern.
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Experts said that WINDS aims to create a large network of weather stations at the hyper-local level to monitor weather patterns, assess risk, and respond to meteorological concerns. This also includes steps to improve air quality monitoring through the development of low-cost reliable sensor-based systems. This will help in generating hyper-local weather data that would aid farmers in planning irrigation, sowing, and harvesting.
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