Link: Now, farmers in state g@t SMS on weather predictions
IIT-Bombay spin-off, Agrocom, uses Krishi Vigyan Kendra information to send cloud cover, rain warning to nearly 200 grape growers
Two months ago, when an unseasonal rain hit Sangli, 55-year-old Subhash Dattatrey Arwe was one of the 200 farmers, mainly grape growers, in the State who was able to save his 40-acre grape plantation. For, a day before the rain, he received an SMS in Marathi, scripted in English, that warned him about it.
That is very cool indeed. This farmer saved quite a bit of cash as a result of that text!
I think there’s still massive, massive opportunities to provide these kind of services.
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