India ahead with AI-driven forecasts in helping farmers
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New Delhi: While climate change is making the pattern of rainfall more erratic and difficult to predict, the Indian government has started providing AI-driven forecasts directly to farmers on smartphones to help them manage their agricultural operations.
“This year’s unusual monsoon, with its early arrival and a rare midseason hiatus, illustrates just how fragile agricultural rhythms have become. But this year was also different for another reason: millions of Indian farmers had artificial intelligence on their side,” according to an article by Stacey Glaser in One World Outlook.
Earlier, accurate weather forecasting could be done only by governments and well-funded institutions, backed by supercomputers that cost millions of dollars.
