1. The seven decade-old India's Agriculture Ministry will be renamed as the Ministry for ‘Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare'.
2. Faced with fierce global competition, Onion dehydration units now chase domestic consumers.
3. It’s a tough contest between the State-run India Meteorological Department (IMD) and private operator SkyMet, on who will get the right forecast on the South-West Monsoon. IMD operated by Earth Systems Science Organization (ESSO) had, in June, predicted 88 per cent of the Long Period Average (LPA) with a ±4 per cent model error (which sounded alarm bells for agriculture) while SkyMet put it at 102 per cent (a good monsoon season).
4. Two global forecasters — Tokyo-based Applications Laboratory of the Japanese Jamstec and Busan, and South Korea-based Asia Pacific Climate Centre — have forecast less-than-normal rainfall for August.
5. The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts suggests that the token monsoon activity now taking place in the worst-hit South Peninsula may cease as super typhoons re-emerge over the Pacific, one after the other, next week.
6. The Grameen Krishi Seva Scheme of the IMD has been providing crop-specific advisories to farmers at the district/agro-climatic zone level twice weekly through different media.
2. Faced with fierce global competition, Onion dehydration units now chase domestic consumers.
3. It’s a tough contest between the State-run India Meteorological Department (IMD) and private operator SkyMet, on who will get the right forecast on the South-West Monsoon. IMD operated by Earth Systems Science Organization (ESSO) had, in June, predicted 88 per cent of the Long Period Average (LPA) with a ±4 per cent model error (which sounded alarm bells for agriculture) while SkyMet put it at 102 per cent (a good monsoon season).
4. Two global forecasters — Tokyo-based Applications Laboratory of the Japanese Jamstec and Busan, and South Korea-based Asia Pacific Climate Centre — have forecast less-than-normal rainfall for August.
5. The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts suggests that the token monsoon activity now taking place in the worst-hit South Peninsula may cease as super typhoons re-emerge over the Pacific, one after the other, next week.
6. The Grameen Krishi Seva Scheme of the IMD has been providing crop-specific advisories to farmers at the district/agro-climatic zone level twice weekly through different media.
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