New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said it is working at a brisk pace to issue localised weather forecast-ing to all 6,500 blocks across 660 districts in the country by 2020 and help as many as 9.5 crore farmers deal with the vagaries of weather. However, the most challenging task would be to enhance the accuracy of weather forecasts and to make agromet advisory services (AAS) more useful and user friendliness, it added. At present, IMD issues district level advisories.
In 2018, it tied up with Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) to extend weather forecast and AAS at the block level. “A lot of progress has been made since signing of the MoU with ICAR. The work is at a faster pace,” IMD Deputy Director General S D Attri told PTI on the sidelines of a Ficci event.
