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Artificial intelligence is helping Indian farmers adapt to climate change—forecast accurately predicting an unusual monsoon season reached 38 million - HCWF

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Thirty-eight million farmers across India received forecasts this summer accurately predicting the start of the rainy season. This forecast, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), was tailored to farmers’ needs, providing them with advance prediction of the rainy season earlier than ever before—up to four weeks ahead of the rain. This represents a paradigm shift for smallholder farmers who had to make important farming decisions like what, how much, and when to plant without this information. With this initiative, the Indian Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare set a model for what the future of weather services for farming could look like for hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers across the tropics who depend on information about when the rainy season, known as the monsoon, will come each year. Nearly two-thirds of the global population live in areas with monsoon climates. “This program harnesses the revolution in AI-based weather forecasting to predict the arrival of

Artificial intelligence is helping Indian farmers adapt to climate change—forecast accurately predicting an unusual monsoon season reached 38 million - HCWF Skip to content Thirty-eight million farmers across India received forecasts this summer accurately predicting the start of the rainy season. This forecast, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), was tailored to farmers’ needs, providing them with advance prediction of the rainy season earlier than ever before—up to four weeks ahead of the rain. This represents a paradigm shift for smallholder farmers who had to make important farming de

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