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Agriculture Information Services : Farmers will Get SMS Alert about Weather Conditions
Union Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences Dr. Harsh Vardhan said that district
level weather forecast for next 5-days is provided to farmers in respect of:
1. Wind speed, wind direction
2. Relative humidity and clouds
3. Rainfall
4. Maximum temperature, minimum temperature
5. Weekly cumulative rainfall forecast
The GKMS of ESSO-IMD has been successful in providing the crop specific advisories to the farmers
through different print/visual/Radio/ IT based media including short message service (SMS) and
Interactive Voice Response Service (IVRS) facilitating for appropriate field level actions.
The SMS services are available for any farmer across the country who registers in Kisan Portal or
through the designated SMS service providers under public private partnership (PPP) mode.
ESSO-IMD had a mobile application for Android based smart phone/tablets. The mobile app by the
name “Indian Weather” is downloadable from Google play store. App is free of cost. Presently, the
app provides current weather and 4 days weather forecast across the country for 310 cities.