Farmers to get weather alerts on mobile

The climatic and weather information will be highly localised and provided within a 50-kilometre radius on their mobile phones

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BS Reporter
Last Updated : Jun 19 2015 | 1:30 AM IST
At a time when the country is staring at the prospect of below-normal southwest monsoon, the agriculture ministry on Thursday launched a free short message service (SMS), which would provide updated weather information to registered farmers at an interval of three hours. The climatic and weather information will be highly localised and provided within a 50-kilometre radius on their mobile phones.
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First Published: Jun 19 2015 | 12:31 AM IST