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ITANAGAR: Union Minister Kiren Rijiju announced Friday that instruments for extensive weather reading and three large Doppler Radar stations will be installed in Arunachal Pradesh soon.
Chairing a day-long farmers awareness programme here, the Union Minister of Earth Sciences said that the installation of the instruments would result in accurate weather forecasts in the state, which would directly benefit the farmers by allowing them to plan their agricultural activities accordingly to maximise productivity and minimise losses.
He urged the farmers to increase agricultural productivity by using scientific methods.
The minister, who represents the Western Parliamentary constituency in the state, informed us that since climate is an important factor in everyone’s lives and the fast-changing climate due to global warming is going to have an impact, we all need to change our lifestyles and respond to it scientifically.
He appealed to the farmers to take full advantage of the programme.
Appreciating Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rijiju said that because of the initiatives of the NDA government through various schemes and programmes, the country and the state in particular have seen improvements in road connectivity, electricity in every village, the Direct Beneficiary Transfer System (DBT), the mid-day meal scheme, and many others.
He added that the Modi government is thriving towards improving the living standard of every person in the country.
The programme on Self-Reliant Farmers: Empowering Farmers through Agrometeorological Advisory Services in a Changing Climate, was jointly organised by the ministry of Earth Sciences, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), the Association of Agrometeorologists, the state agricultural department, and the Centre for Earth Sciences and Himalayan Studies.
Earlier, state agriculture and horticulture minister Tage Taki, while speaking on the occasion, informed that the reason for less productivity in the state can be attributed to the lack of tools for assessing climatic variation.
“Lack of weather-related data like rain density and wind velocity results in the failure of designing effective and efficient agricultural structures,” Taki said, and he requested the team of Earth Sciences from Delhi to consider the agro-climatic zones, climatic variations, and the shortcoming in accurate weather forecasts in the state and train the farmers accordingly so that they gain maximum benefit from the training.
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