As India’s population sees no abatement and the pressure to improve food productivity rises, more entrepreneurs and investors are slowly but surely eyeing the latent potential the agriculture segment promises, as it needs corporate governance and domain expertise.Read more..

The power of entrepreneurship and innovation to transform India into one of the leading economies of the world will be visible in full measure at the TiEcon Delhi 2011. The entrepreneurial event, among the biggest in Asia, begins on September 30 at Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi.Read more.

Omnivore Capital, an early stage venture capital fund backed by Godrej Agrovet Ltd, has made its first investment by buying a 33% stake in.Read more..

A cyclonic circulation off the west coast that has already seen monsoon through Konkan is likely to intensify into a low pressure system.Read more..

The latest ENSO (El Niqo/La Niqa Southern Oscillation) update by NCEP (National Centers for Environmental Prediction, USA) envisages neutral conditions. It is ashift from an earlier outlook that saw mild El Nino (negative for monsoon) settling in during the later half of monsoon.Read more..

Technopreneur-2011', the sixth edition of the annual techno-managerial symposium organised by Yi-Net (Young Indian Net, an initiative of Confederation of Indian Industry) of Model Engineering College.Read more..

BIG corporate houses are rushing to private weather forecasters for monsoon projections, as they look to finalise their investment and production estimates for next year. Monsoon rains are the lifeline of Asia's third largest economy, where more than two thirds of the population still depend on agriculture for livelihood. Read More..

The programme was held on 29th March 2010 in New Delhi with our 2 days Commercialization Workshop. This workshop provided an overview of the commercialization process, and how our program is structured to help innovators like you to accelerate your inventions into the marketplace. Read more..

Skymet is a leading weather-based business solutions provider in India. Its ambit of weather services serves various domains of the industry like media, power, shipping and telecom and helps organization in understanding weather factors that affect them. Skymet and its subsidiary Skymet Energy together form the chuck of the nascent weather services market in India. Its services encompass demanding applications in power load forecasting. The company’s operations are based out of Noida in the National Capital Region of Delhi.Read more..

Once, he did it purely by instinct. Today, Bhagwan Rao Patil sprays fungicide on his pomegranates only after getting an SMS alert on humidity and other information on the weather for his tehsil in Solapur district, Maharashtra. The fungicide should be sprayed when the moisture level is high and the SMS message helps him decide whether to spray his crop or not. A part from.Read more..

When Prithvi Haldea, MBA by training and corporate executive for two decades, started his own venture in 1989—a database on the primary capital market—he didn’t know the risks involved would eventually include his life. Haldea’s other database.Read more..

In the previous articles, we speculated on the nature of winter in India this year and there were major differences among seasonal forecasts from different sources. The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) and the IMD indicated below-normal temperatures in northwest India whereas the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Climate Centre (APCC) indicated a warmer-than-normal.Read more..

The first official forecast for the June to September monsoon is likely to predict normal rains in the region, despite some of the determinants being not so favourable.Read more..

Omnivore Capital, an early-stage fund with the focus on India’s agricultural technology space, has made its debut deal by investing an undisclosed amount in the country’s first private sector weather forecasting company Skyline Met Solutions Pvt Ltd.Read more..

Betting on the Weather Gods - Selling customised weather packages is not enough for Jatin Singh. He has ambitious plans for Skymet, including turning it into India's most successful power trading company. As a school boy in Delhi, Jatin Singh ran a comics library. He would borrow books from people, and rent them out to his friends for a fee. Read More..

Power firms buy weather forecasts to project demand. Firms willing to pay as a clutch of companies provide data with more regular updates than government-run IMD. Not just India's farmers but power companies, too, are now interested in weather forecasts and willing to pay for such services. Read More..

Private weather forecasters are giving the venerable India Meteorological Department a run for its money. T.V. Jayan forecasts that this will become an even bigger business in the years ahead. In Maharashtra's Sanghli district, grape grower Bandhu Desai thanks his stars that he subscribed to the services of a private weather forecasting company. Read More..

Open Magazine - A Private Eye on the Weather Case. They say it'll rain, but it turns out irritatingly sunny; they say it'll be cloudy but it pours. For most of us, that's just one more in the list of amusing weather anecdotes, but some companies stand to lose money due to inaccurate government forecasts. Enter private forecasting organisations. Read More..

The Hindu Business Line: Skymet bets big on weather insurance for air travellers. Skymet is betting big on weather forecast, and is expecting traders and travellers to celebrate both sunny and gloomy weather days. Here's some cheer for stranded travellers.Read More..

Case study: Nokia Life Tools - Skymet Energy, which provides weather forecast updates, is also one of several partners involved in Nokia Life Tools. Jatin Singh from Skymet added that previously, data from the meteorological department didn't go beyond district level. Read More..