Centre prepares rabi contingency plan for 225 districts amid weak sowing
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- ✓The government prepared a contingency plan for 225 districts as rabi sowing remains slack due to an uneven monsoon.
- ✓ICAR is developing a dynamic dashboard to support farm advisories across India.
- ✓"We are taking contingency planning to a new level," said ICAR Director General ML Jat on Friday.
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ICAR is developing a dynamic dashboard integrating weather forecasts, water data and district-level information to support contingency planning and farm advisories across India
As rabi crop sowing remains slack due to an uneven monsoon, the government has prepared a contingency plan for 225 districts -- a rare occurrence during the rabi season -- while remaining hopeful that sowing will pick up over the next month and a half.
"We are taking contingency planning to a new level. We have been working on this since the last season and want to develop a dynamic dashboard. The proposed dashboard would allow users to access information at the district level. It would integrate the India Meteorological Department's (IMD) weekly forecasts, data on water bodies and other relevant information to help officials make decisions based on local conditions," Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Director General ML Jat told reporters on Friday.
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