Maharashtra Government has commissioned automatic weather stations in over 2,000 revenue circles, to provide real time weather-related information to farmers up to the village level.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis told PTI that the idea was to create a decentralised system that would provide accurate weather related information right up to the village level. He said, farmers, who are often at the receiving end of unpredictable weather, will now get detailed information about the climatic conditions in their area, thus allowing them better crop management and damage prevention.
Mr. Fadnavis said, as the current weather systems provide a consolidated information on weather of a whole region, one cannot exactly predict the climate change at a local level.
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