{
  "id": 17776645,
  "title": "IIT Bombay Launches KrishiDrought Portal, Offers Weekly Agricultural Drought Forecasts For India",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/02/iit-bombay-launches-krishidrought-portal-offers-weekly-agricultural",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-02T09:15:35.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/tech/iit-bombay-launches-krishidrought-portal-offers-weekly-agricultural-drought-forecasts-for-india"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay has launched KrishiDrought.in, a public web portal that publishes weekly agricultural drought forecasts for the country. According to the institute's announcement, the forecasts can warn of dry conditions up to four weeks ahead. They are generated at a spatial resolution of roughly 9 km and presented at the district level. How the forecasts are made…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}