Patna, (Bihar Times): The Patna centre of the Indian Meteorology Department is about to witness a qualitative change in weather forecast. It will now have improved technology and infrastructural facilities.

According to T N Jha, director IMD Patna centre, the new facilities would help forecast weather condition five days in advance, which will be of great help to agriculture scientists and farmers. The Met office has decided to organize an Agro-Met Advisory Committee Service meeting at the ICAR auditorium in Patna on April 28. Jha said that the participants would be all district agriculture officers of the state, agriculture scientists and agricultural personnel of the Krishi Vigyan Kendra. He said that agriculture scientists would gather the weather forecast information from the IMD, Patna Centre and inform the farmers about the forecast so that the latter could take appropriate measures for sowing or protecting their crops.