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To fortify climate-resilient agriculture, the Telangana Agriculture Department launched a peculiar upwind advisory inaugural aimed astatine providing farmers with beforehand accusation connected upwind conditions and rainfall patterns.
As portion of the initiative, the Agriculture Department entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with DIL India and Evidence Action, a Chicago-based organisation.
According to Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao, nether the programme, farmers successful 17 districts of Telangana volition person beforehand upwind alerts done WhatsApp messages connected their mobile phones. The alerts volition supply accusation connected the apt onset of rainfall and upwind conditions successful their respective mandals, enabling them to marque informed decisions regarding cultivation operations.
Officials said the weather-based advisories would assistance farmers program captious farming activities specified arsenic sowing, procurement and exertion of seeds and fertilisers, irrigation scheduling, and different tract operations successful a timely manner. Mr. Tummala Nageswara Rao emphasised the value of technology-driven solutions successful modern agriculture and said timely upwind accusation would empower farmers to marque amended decisions and minimise harvest losses. The programme would initially screen 17 districts and could beryllium expanded further based connected its occurrence and husbandman response.
