Agricultural, Meteorologist, Food and Agriculture Department, Govt. of Madras, Coimbatore
The importance of timeliness of rain in crop production and the usefulness of producing rain by artificial stimulation of clouds to maintain steadily the high levels of crop yields are referred to in the introductory portion of the paper.
With suitable data, the need for the artificial stimulation of clouds at Coimbatore has been clearly brought out.
The details of the ground technique—”Electric Arc Method”, adopted in Coimbatore experiments are briefly indicated in the paper.
Rain-making experiments were started at Coimbatore on June 19’ 1968 and are being continued with the adoption of Random Sampling Technique from April 1, 1960.
The tentative inference drawn from the data collected so far is that during the period of June to December, the success of the seeding technique is clearly brought out for the months of October to December.
