{"id":85097,"date":"2019-03-11T17:06:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T11:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2019-03-11T17:06:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T11:36:17","slug":"cloud-seeding-to-be-back-in-karnataka-for-two-monsoons-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cloud-seeding-to-be-back-in-karnataka-for-two-monsoons-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud seeding to be back in Karnataka for two monsoons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Rural Development and Panchayat Raj\nDepartment of Karnataka has called tenders for cloud seeding operations to\nenhance rainfall during the monsoons of 2019 and 2020. This decision for cloud\nseeding comes in the backdrop of deficient rainfall in 2018-19 and consequent\ndrought in 176 taluks of Karnataka. <\/li><li>Cloud seeding is a type of weather modification\nprocedure. It is an artificial way to induce moisture in the clouds so as to\ncause a rainfall. In this process, silver iodide, potassium chloride and sodium\nchloride is sprayed on the clouds by using an aircraft. The chemicals condense\nsmaller particles into larger rain droplets.<\/li><li>Karnataka had previously used cloud seeding in\n2003, 2009 and 2017. In 2017, the Karnataka government had successfully carried\nout a cloud seeding exercise called Project Varshadhare. An independent evaluation\ncommittee had estimated that the project led to rainfall enhancement of 27.9%.<\/li><li>Cloud seeding operations in India requires\nmultiple approvals from different government departments, viz. Ministry of\nDefence (MoD), the Indian Air Force, Intelligence Bureau and Directorate General\nof Civil Aviation (DGCA) &#8211; the regulatory body in field of Civil\nAviation.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department of Karnataka has called tenders for cloud seeding operations to enhance rainfall during the monsoons of 2019 and 2020. This decision for cloud seeding comes in the backdrop of deficient rainfall in 2018-19 and consequent drought in 176 taluks of Karnataka. Cloud seeding is a type of weather&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cloud-seeding-to-be-back-in-karnataka-for-two-monsoons-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cloud seeding to be back in Karnataka for two monsoons<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2240],"class_list":["post-85097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-cloud-seeding","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704873010},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}