BEIJING: China is in conversation with India to give cloud-seeding technology to drought-hit Maharashtra to induce rain and train the staff of the local meteorological department. A team of scientists and officials from Beijing, Shanghai, and China’s eastern Anhui region raised a point in discussing the cooperation during their recent visit to Maharashtra which has experienced severe droughts over the last two years.
China has used cloud seeding rockets from the last few years, which is crowned with silver iodide to cause precipitation. But it needs clouds to cause precipitation.
If the discussions are victorious, Chinese experts would offer training to officials of the Indian Meteorological Department on their latest cloud-seeding technology, according to the sources.
The training to officials of the Indian Meteorological Department is expected to be given on procedures to seed clouds efficiently, as per the sources. The training to officials of the Indian Meteorological Department is basically aimed at inducing rain over Maharashtra’s Marathwada region in the summer of 2017 if needed, it stated. The event goes after a meeting between Shanghai’s top official Han Zheng and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in Mumbai in early May. Han, who is also a Communist Party of China Politburo member, had put a question to Fadnavis if China could do anything for drought relief in Maharashtra. China started to use cloud-seeding technology in 1958, and today it has one of the most advanced systems in the world, the report stated.
China’s Cloud-Seeding Technology to aid Maharashtra's Meteorological Department
