[ptrikha21]

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With the advent of climate change and global warming, often agriculture and in lands that are mainly rain fed
and not much served by irrigation facilities suffer.
To alleviate this, Governments in many places now think of Cloud Seeding to generate artificial rain.
In a similar initiative, cloud seeding has been planned in Indian capital Delhi in July.

The Delhi government has approved five cloud seeding trials with a budget of ₹3.21 crore, allocating ₹2.75 crore specifically for conducting the trials. Each trial will involve aircraft operations lasting one to one-and-a-half hours, with IIT Kanpur leading the technical implementation.

The cloud seeding process involves injecting rain-inducing chemicals like silver iodide into suitable cloud formations, encouraging precipitation that could potentially wash away airborne pollutants. The scientific approach to weather modification aims to provide good rains for agriculture and also to counter environmental
pollution.
While some environmentalists have raised concerns, scientific evaluations would be made to ascertain the results of this experiment and submit reports to validate the experiment.

Source : Hindustan Times Newspaper

[Fergal]

That's very interesting ptrikha21. It would be interesting to witness it live and see if it starts raining after the plane has gone through the clouds. Hopefully it will help prevent crops from failing and provide more food for the local population. Hopefully it is also safe and does not have any negative environmental or health impact.

[Netherrealmer]

So they are going to do this during summer?

[arunima]

So they are going to do this during summer?

July is rainy season in India.
Very interesting information. It is intriguing and let's see how it works out. It would be a big breakthrough if it works out as Delhi always makes news with it's rampant air pollutants and severe poor air quality . Let's hope that it doesn't cause other environmental issues as the environmentalists fear.

[ptrikha21]

That's very interesting ptrikha21. It would be interesting to witness it live and see if it starts raining after the plane has gone through the clouds........

I too hope that this whole process is done scientifically and in a way that does not harms environment too much.
However, the latest update is that this process has been postponed to September i.e Post Monsoon (rainy) season.

--- 09 Jul 2025, 22:39 ---

So they are going to do this during summer?

As per an update is that this process has been postponed to September i.e Post Monsoon (rainy) season.

--- 09 Jul 2025, 22:41 ---

So they are going to do this during summer?

July is rainy season in India.
Very interesting information. It is intriguing and let's see how it works out. It would be a big breakthrough if it works out as Delhi always makes news with.........

The whole exercise has been postponed. But whenever it happens let us hope that it goes well enough.