A new application developed by the rural development and foods ministry to give farmers early warning of oncoming frost is to be unveiled next week. Its aim is to restrict crop losses due to frost each year, as well as the amounts paid in compensation, which have reached an estimated 1.25 billion euros in the last 23 years. These will provide hour-by-hour frost forecasts over a three-day period, so that interested parties can predict with accuracy when the phenomena will start and end, while farmers can also opt to receive alerts on their phones or e-mails for particular areas of their choice.
