Madhya Pradesh Farm Leader Threatens To Sue Weather Department IMD For "Wrong" Predictions

"In most of the cases, the weather predictions released by the IMD have failed. This has led to huge losses for farmers," Bharatiya Kisan Sangh's Malwa prant (region) spokesman Bharat Singh Bais claimed while talking to news agency PTI on Wednesday.

A farmers' Union leader in Madhya Pradesh's Malwa region has threatened to move court against what he claimed as the IMD's "wrong" predictions leading to crop losses for cultivators in recent times. However, a senior scientist of the India Meterological Department said farmers might have been "misled", as a private weather service predicted early monsoon this year, in contrast to forecast of the IMD (an agency of the Ministry of Earth Sciences of the Government of India). He also said that cultivators should check whether the information was coming to them from genuine sources. "In most of the cases, the weather predictions released by the IMD have failed. This has led to huge losses for farmers," Bharatiya Kisan Sangh's Malwa prant (region) spokesman Bharat Singh Bais claimed while talking to news agency PTI on Wednesday.