{"id":63440,"date":"2025-09-14T15:54:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T10:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=63440"},"modified":"2025-09-16T15:24:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:54:21","slug":"ai-based-weather-forecasting-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ai-based-weather-forecasting-program\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-Based Weather Forecasting Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>AI-Based Weather Forecasting Program Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers\u2019 Welfare (MoAFW) launched AI-based monsoon forecasts via SMS (m-Kisan) to nearly 3.8 crore farmers across 13 states this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About AI-Based Weather Forecasting Program<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was launched by the <\/span><b>Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers\u2019 Welfare.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under this initiative AI-based monsoon forecasts were <\/span><b>sent using the m-Kisan portal.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the first-of-its-kind targeted dissemination of AI weather forecasts to date.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These AI-based forecasts distributed by the MoAFW correctly <\/span><b>identified 20 days&#8217; pause<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in monsoon progression.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government sent updated information <\/span><b>to farmers every week<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> until continuous rains arrived in their area.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>AI Models used<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The forecasts used were a blend of two open-access models\u2014<\/span><b>Google\u2019s Neural GCM<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts\u2019 (ECMWF) <\/span><b>Artificial Intelligence Forecasting Systems<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (AIFS).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Significance:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It centers specifically on the needs of farmers by <\/span><b>providing tailored weather forecasts <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in easy to understand language and helps them make informed farming decisions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>What is m-Kisan Portal?<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a platform which <\/span><b>provides web-based mobile advisory to farmers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with the technological backstopping from Research Institutes and Agricultural Universities supporting farmers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It enables all <\/span><b>Central and State government organizations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in agriculture and allied sectors to provide information\/services\/advisories to farmers by SMS in their language, preference of agricultural practices and location.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through this portal messages are tailored to the farmer\u2019s language, location, and preferred practices, helping them stay <\/span><b>updated on weather, crops, pest control<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and government schemes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2166074#:~:text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PIB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AI-Based Weather Forecasting Program was launched by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers\u2019 Welfare. \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":63649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2690,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-63440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-ai-based-weather-forecasting-program","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}