Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 73,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'catslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 73,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/centre-braces-for-sub-normal-rains-vishwa-mohan-rajeev-deshpande-4673089/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/centre-braces-for-sub-normal-rains-vishwa-mohan-rajeev-deshpande-4673089/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'catslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 73
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 74,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 74,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/centre-braces-for-sub-normal-rains-vishwa-mohan-rajeev-deshpande-4673089/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/centre-braces-for-sub-normal-rains-vishwa-mohan-rajeev-deshpande-4673089/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 74
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Code Context
            if (Configure::read('debug')) {

                trigger_error($message, E_USER_WARNING);

            } else {
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f0720899071-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f0720899071-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67f0720899071-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f0720899071-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f0720899071-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f0720899071-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f0720899071-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67f0720899071-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67f0720899071-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 25057,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan &amp;amp; Rajeev Deshpande&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
-The Times of India
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;NEW DELHI: &lt;/em&gt;The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;The government is alert about the possibility of a subnormal monsoon this year and contingency plans are being prepared,&amp;quot; President Pranab Mukherjee said in his address to Parliament on Monday.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The official word came as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said moderate El Nino conditions expected to develop in the tropical Pacific in the summer months would impact the monsoon.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
While the agriculture ministry said it was ready to deal with crop, fodder and water shortages, the forecast will make the government&#039;s bid to improve growth and contain inflation, particularly in food, more challenging.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The high 70% probability of El Nino occurring during the monsoon (reported by TOI on June 9) and warmer than normal conditions have resulted in IMD revising its April 95% LPA forecast to 93%.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The regional variations are more worrying. The food grain basket of the northwest is likely to receive the least rains at 85% of LPA, while the forecast is 94% and 93% in central and south India.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Only the northeast might escape the backlash of El Nino, with the region expected to receive 99% of the LPA rainfall.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;Quantitatively, the season rainfall for the country as a whole is likely to be 93% of LPA with an error of plus-minus 4,&amp;quot; the IMD said in an official release.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
There is a 33% probability of less than 90% of LPA rainfall and a 38% probability of 90-96% of LPA while the probability of a normal monsoon is just 26%.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The confirmation has served to strengthen the apprehension that the Modi government may soon be put to test if the monsoon underperforms and crop failures and droughts result.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Adding to the problem would be the possibility of floods in the northeast if the near normal predictions for the region hold true.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Agriculture ministry indicated that it was viewing the situation with due seriousness and said storage positions in major reservoirs was satisfactory and a buffer of 100 lakh tonnes of rice and 170 lakh tonnes of wheat was available
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The total stock stood at 206 lakh tonnes of rice and 415 lakh tonnes of wheat while crop contingency plans are in place for 500 of about 540 agricultural districts.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Availability of seeds, delayed sowing, keeping aside 10% of funds under the national agriculture development scheme, construction of water harvesting structures and repairing tube wells is being planned.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The government is also ready to reschedule crop loans and provide interest subvention and allocate additional budget for accelerated fodder development.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 10 June, 2014, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Centre-braces-for-sub-normal-rains/articleshow/36316949.cms&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;centre-braces-for-sub-normal-rains-vishwa-mohan-rajeev-deshpande-4673089&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4673089,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 25057,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan &amp;amp; Rajeev Deshpande&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Agriculture,farming,rainfall,monsoon,Irrigation&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;
-The Times of India


&amp;nbsp;


NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.


&amp;quot;The government...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;-The Times of India&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;NEW DELHI: &lt;/em&gt;The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;The government is alert about the possibility of a subnormal monsoon this year and contingency plans are being prepared,&amp;quot; President Pranab Mukherjee said in his address to Parliament on Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The official word came as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said moderate El Nino conditions expected to develop in the tropical Pacific in the summer months would impact the monsoon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;While the agriculture ministry said it was ready to deal with crop, fodder and water shortages, the forecast will make the government&#039;s bid to improve growth and contain inflation, particularly in food, more challenging.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The high 70% probability of El Nino occurring during the monsoon (reported by TOI on June 9) and warmer than normal conditions have resulted in IMD revising its April 95% LPA forecast to 93%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The regional variations are more worrying. The food grain basket of the northwest is likely to receive the least rains at 85% of LPA, while the forecast is 94% and 93% in central and south India.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Only the northeast might escape the backlash of El Nino, with the region expected to receive 99% of the LPA rainfall.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Quantitatively, the season rainfall for the country as a whole is likely to be 93% of LPA with an error of plus-minus 4,&amp;quot; the IMD said in an official release.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;There is a 33% probability of less than 90% of LPA rainfall and a 38% probability of 90-96% of LPA while the probability of a normal monsoon is just 26%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The confirmation has served to strengthen the apprehension that the Modi government may soon be put to test if the monsoon underperforms and crop failures and droughts result.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Adding to the problem would be the possibility of floods in the northeast if the near normal predictions for the region hold true.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Agriculture ministry indicated that it was viewing the situation with due seriousness and said storage positions in major reservoirs was satisfactory and a buffer of 100 lakh tonnes of rice and 170 lakh tonnes of wheat was available&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The total stock stood at 206 lakh tonnes of rice and 415 lakh tonnes of wheat while crop contingency plans are in place for 500 of about 540 agricultural districts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Availability of seeds, delayed sowing, keeping aside 10% of funds under the national agriculture development scheme, construction of water harvesting structures and repairing tube wells is being planned.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The government is also ready to reschedule crop loans and provide interest subvention and allocate additional budget for accelerated fodder development.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 25057,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan &amp;amp; Rajeev Deshpande&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
-The Times of India
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;NEW DELHI: &lt;/em&gt;The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;The government is alert about the possibility of a subnormal monsoon this year and contingency plans are being prepared,&amp;quot; President Pranab Mukherjee said in his address to Parliament on Monday.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The official word came as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said moderate El Nino conditions expected to develop in the tropical Pacific in the summer months would impact the monsoon.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
While the agriculture ministry said it was ready to deal with crop, fodder and water shortages, the forecast will make the government&#039;s bid to improve growth and contain inflation, particularly in food, more challenging.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The high 70% probability of El Nino occurring during the monsoon (reported by TOI on June 9) and warmer than normal conditions have resulted in IMD revising its April 95% LPA forecast to 93%.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The regional variations are more worrying. The food grain basket of the northwest is likely to receive the least rains at 85% of LPA, while the forecast is 94% and 93% in central and south India.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Only the northeast might escape the backlash of El Nino, with the region expected to receive 99% of the LPA rainfall.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;Quantitatively, the season rainfall for the country as a whole is likely to be 93% of LPA with an error of plus-minus 4,&amp;quot; the IMD said in an official release.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
There is a 33% probability of less than 90% of LPA rainfall and a 38% probability of 90-96% of LPA while the probability of a normal monsoon is just 26%.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The confirmation has served to strengthen the apprehension that the Modi government may soon be put to test if the monsoon underperforms and crop failures and droughts result.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Adding to the problem would be the possibility of floods in the northeast if the near normal predictions for the region hold true.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Agriculture ministry indicated that it was viewing the situation with due seriousness and said storage positions in major reservoirs was satisfactory and a buffer of 100 lakh tonnes of rice and 170 lakh tonnes of wheat was available
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The total stock stood at 206 lakh tonnes of rice and 415 lakh tonnes of wheat while crop contingency plans are in place for 500 of about 540 agricultural districts.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Availability of seeds, delayed sowing, keeping aside 10% of funds under the national agriculture development scheme, construction of water harvesting structures and repairing tube wells is being planned.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The government is also ready to reschedule crop loans and provide interest subvention and allocate additional budget for accelerated fodder development.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 10 June, 2014, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Centre-braces-for-sub-normal-rains/articleshow/36316949.cms&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;centre-braces-for-sub-normal-rains-vishwa-mohan-rajeev-deshpande-4673089&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4673089,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 25057
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan &amp;amp; Rajeev Deshpande&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Agriculture,farming,rainfall,monsoon,Irrigation&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;
-The Times of India


&amp;nbsp;


NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.


&amp;quot;The government...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;-The Times of India&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;NEW DELHI: &lt;/em&gt;The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;The government is alert about the possibility of a subnormal monsoon this year and contingency plans are being prepared,&amp;quot; President Pranab Mukherjee said in his address to Parliament on Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The official word came as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said moderate El Nino conditions expected to develop in the tropical Pacific in the summer months would impact the monsoon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;While the agriculture ministry said it was ready to deal with crop, fodder and water shortages, the forecast will make the government&#039;s bid to improve growth and contain inflation, particularly in food, more challenging.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The high 70% probability of El Nino occurring during the monsoon (reported by TOI on June 9) and warmer than normal conditions have resulted in IMD revising its April 95% LPA forecast to 93%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The regional variations are more worrying. The food grain basket of the northwest is likely to receive the least rains at 85% of LPA, while the forecast is 94% and 93% in central and south India.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Only the northeast might escape the backlash of El Nino, with the region expected to receive 99% of the LPA rainfall.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Quantitatively, the season rainfall for the country as a whole is likely to be 93% of LPA with an error of plus-minus 4,&amp;quot; the IMD said in an official release.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;There is a 33% probability of less than 90% of LPA rainfall and a 38% probability of 90-96% of LPA while the probability of a normal monsoon is just 26%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The confirmation has served to strengthen the apprehension that the Modi government may soon be put to test if the monsoon underperforms and crop failures and droughts result.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Adding to the problem would be the possibility of floods in the northeast if the near normal predictions for the region hold true.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Agriculture ministry indicated that it was viewing the situation with due seriousness and said storage positions in major reservoirs was satisfactory and a buffer of 100 lakh tonnes of rice and 170 lakh tonnes of wheat was available&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The total stock stood at 206 lakh tonnes of rice and 415 lakh tonnes of wheat while crop contingency plans are in place for 500 of about 540 agricultural districts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Availability of seeds, delayed sowing, keeping aside 10% of funds under the national agriculture development scheme, construction of water harvesting structures and repairing tube wells is being planned.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The government is also ready to reschedule crop loans and provide interest subvention and allocate additional budget for accelerated fodder development.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/centre-braces-for-sub-normal-rains-vishwa-mohan-rajeev-deshpande-4673089.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan &amp; Rajeev Deshpande | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="
-The Times of India


&nbsp;


NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.


&quot;The government..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan &amp; Rajeev Deshpande</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div style="text-align: justify">-The Times of India</div><div style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</div><p style="text-align: justify"><em>NEW DELHI: </em>The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.</p><p style="text-align: justify">&quot;The government is alert about the possibility of a subnormal monsoon this year and contingency plans are being prepared,&quot; President Pranab Mukherjee said in his address to Parliament on Monday.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The official word came as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said moderate El Nino conditions expected to develop in the tropical Pacific in the summer months would impact the monsoon.</p><p style="text-align: justify">While the agriculture ministry said it was ready to deal with crop, fodder and water shortages, the forecast will make the government's bid to improve growth and contain inflation, particularly in food, more challenging.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The high 70% probability of El Nino occurring during the monsoon (reported by TOI on June 9) and warmer than normal conditions have resulted in IMD revising its April 95% LPA forecast to 93%.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The regional variations are more worrying. The food grain basket of the northwest is likely to receive the least rains at 85% of LPA, while the forecast is 94% and 93% in central and south India.</p><p style="text-align: justify">Only the northeast might escape the backlash of El Nino, with the region expected to receive 99% of the LPA rainfall.</p><p style="text-align: justify">&quot;Quantitatively, the season rainfall for the country as a whole is likely to be 93% of LPA with an error of plus-minus 4,&quot; the IMD said in an official release.</p><p style="text-align: justify">There is a 33% probability of less than 90% of LPA rainfall and a 38% probability of 90-96% of LPA while the probability of a normal monsoon is just 26%.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The confirmation has served to strengthen the apprehension that the Modi government may soon be put to test if the monsoon underperforms and crop failures and droughts result.</p><p style="text-align: justify">Adding to the problem would be the possibility of floods in the northeast if the near normal predictions for the region hold true.</p><p style="text-align: justify">Agriculture ministry indicated that it was viewing the situation with due seriousness and said storage positions in major reservoirs was satisfactory and a buffer of 100 lakh tonnes of rice and 170 lakh tonnes of wheat was available</p><p style="text-align: justify">The total stock stood at 206 lakh tonnes of rice and 415 lakh tonnes of wheat while crop contingency plans are in place for 500 of about 540 agricultural districts.</p><p style="text-align: justify">Availability of seeds, delayed sowing, keeping aside 10% of funds under the national agriculture development scheme, construction of water harvesting structures and repairing tube wells is being planned.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The government is also ready to reschedule crop loans and provide interest subvention and allocate additional budget for accelerated fodder development.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$maxBufferLength = (int) 8192
$file = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php'
$line = (int) 853
$message = 'Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853'
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Code Context
            $response->getStatusCode(),

            ($reasonPhrase ? ' ' . $reasonPhrase : '')

        ));
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f0720899071-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f0720899071-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67f0720899071-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f0720899071-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f0720899071-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f0720899071-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f0720899071-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67f0720899071-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67f0720899071-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 25057,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan &amp;amp; Rajeev Deshpande&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
-The Times of India
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;NEW DELHI: &lt;/em&gt;The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;The government is alert about the possibility of a subnormal monsoon this year and contingency plans are being prepared,&amp;quot; President Pranab Mukherjee said in his address to Parliament on Monday.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The official word came as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said moderate El Nino conditions expected to develop in the tropical Pacific in the summer months would impact the monsoon.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
While the agriculture ministry said it was ready to deal with crop, fodder and water shortages, the forecast will make the government&#039;s bid to improve growth and contain inflation, particularly in food, more challenging.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The high 70% probability of El Nino occurring during the monsoon (reported by TOI on June 9) and warmer than normal conditions have resulted in IMD revising its April 95% LPA forecast to 93%.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The regional variations are more worrying. The food grain basket of the northwest is likely to receive the least rains at 85% of LPA, while the forecast is 94% and 93% in central and south India.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Only the northeast might escape the backlash of El Nino, with the region expected to receive 99% of the LPA rainfall.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;Quantitatively, the season rainfall for the country as a whole is likely to be 93% of LPA with an error of plus-minus 4,&amp;quot; the IMD said in an official release.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
There is a 33% probability of less than 90% of LPA rainfall and a 38% probability of 90-96% of LPA while the probability of a normal monsoon is just 26%.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The confirmation has served to strengthen the apprehension that the Modi government may soon be put to test if the monsoon underperforms and crop failures and droughts result.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Adding to the problem would be the possibility of floods in the northeast if the near normal predictions for the region hold true.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Agriculture ministry indicated that it was viewing the situation with due seriousness and said storage positions in major reservoirs was satisfactory and a buffer of 100 lakh tonnes of rice and 170 lakh tonnes of wheat was available
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The total stock stood at 206 lakh tonnes of rice and 415 lakh tonnes of wheat while crop contingency plans are in place for 500 of about 540 agricultural districts.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Availability of seeds, delayed sowing, keeping aside 10% of funds under the national agriculture development scheme, construction of water harvesting structures and repairing tube wells is being planned.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The government is also ready to reschedule crop loans and provide interest subvention and allocate additional budget for accelerated fodder development.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 10 June, 2014, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Centre-braces-for-sub-normal-rains/articleshow/36316949.cms&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;centre-braces-for-sub-normal-rains-vishwa-mohan-rajeev-deshpande-4673089&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4673089,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 25057,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan &amp;amp; Rajeev Deshpande&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Agriculture,farming,rainfall,monsoon,Irrigation&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;
-The Times of India


&amp;nbsp;


NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.


&amp;quot;The government...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;-The Times of India&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;NEW DELHI: &lt;/em&gt;The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;The government is alert about the possibility of a subnormal monsoon this year and contingency plans are being prepared,&amp;quot; President Pranab Mukherjee said in his address to Parliament on Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The official word came as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said moderate El Nino conditions expected to develop in the tropical Pacific in the summer months would impact the monsoon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;While the agriculture ministry said it was ready to deal with crop, fodder and water shortages, the forecast will make the government&#039;s bid to improve growth and contain inflation, particularly in food, more challenging.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The high 70% probability of El Nino occurring during the monsoon (reported by TOI on June 9) and warmer than normal conditions have resulted in IMD revising its April 95% LPA forecast to 93%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The regional variations are more worrying. The food grain basket of the northwest is likely to receive the least rains at 85% of LPA, while the forecast is 94% and 93% in central and south India.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Only the northeast might escape the backlash of El Nino, with the region expected to receive 99% of the LPA rainfall.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Quantitatively, the season rainfall for the country as a whole is likely to be 93% of LPA with an error of plus-minus 4,&amp;quot; the IMD said in an official release.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;There is a 33% probability of less than 90% of LPA rainfall and a 38% probability of 90-96% of LPA while the probability of a normal monsoon is just 26%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The confirmation has served to strengthen the apprehension that the Modi government may soon be put to test if the monsoon underperforms and crop failures and droughts result.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Adding to the problem would be the possibility of floods in the northeast if the near normal predictions for the region hold true.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Agriculture ministry indicated that it was viewing the situation with due seriousness and said storage positions in major reservoirs was satisfactory and a buffer of 100 lakh tonnes of rice and 170 lakh tonnes of wheat was available&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The total stock stood at 206 lakh tonnes of rice and 415 lakh tonnes of wheat while crop contingency plans are in place for 500 of about 540 agricultural districts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Availability of seeds, delayed sowing, keeping aside 10% of funds under the national agriculture development scheme, construction of water harvesting structures and repairing tube wells is being planned.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The government is also ready to reschedule crop loans and provide interest subvention and allocate additional budget for accelerated fodder development.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 25057,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan &amp;amp; Rajeev Deshpande&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
-The Times of India
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;NEW DELHI: &lt;/em&gt;The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;The government is alert about the possibility of a subnormal monsoon this year and contingency plans are being prepared,&amp;quot; President Pranab Mukherjee said in his address to Parliament on Monday.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The official word came as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said moderate El Nino conditions expected to develop in the tropical Pacific in the summer months would impact the monsoon.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
While the agriculture ministry said it was ready to deal with crop, fodder and water shortages, the forecast will make the government&#039;s bid to improve growth and contain inflation, particularly in food, more challenging.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The high 70% probability of El Nino occurring during the monsoon (reported by TOI on June 9) and warmer than normal conditions have resulted in IMD revising its April 95% LPA forecast to 93%.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The regional variations are more worrying. The food grain basket of the northwest is likely to receive the least rains at 85% of LPA, while the forecast is 94% and 93% in central and south India.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Only the northeast might escape the backlash of El Nino, with the region expected to receive 99% of the LPA rainfall.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;Quantitatively, the season rainfall for the country as a whole is likely to be 93% of LPA with an error of plus-minus 4,&amp;quot; the IMD said in an official release.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
There is a 33% probability of less than 90% of LPA rainfall and a 38% probability of 90-96% of LPA while the probability of a normal monsoon is just 26%.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The confirmation has served to strengthen the apprehension that the Modi government may soon be put to test if the monsoon underperforms and crop failures and droughts result.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Adding to the problem would be the possibility of floods in the northeast if the near normal predictions for the region hold true.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Agriculture ministry indicated that it was viewing the situation with due seriousness and said storage positions in major reservoirs was satisfactory and a buffer of 100 lakh tonnes of rice and 170 lakh tonnes of wheat was available
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The total stock stood at 206 lakh tonnes of rice and 415 lakh tonnes of wheat while crop contingency plans are in place for 500 of about 540 agricultural districts.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Availability of seeds, delayed sowing, keeping aside 10% of funds under the national agriculture development scheme, construction of water harvesting structures and repairing tube wells is being planned.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The government is also ready to reschedule crop loans and provide interest subvention and allocate additional budget for accelerated fodder development.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 10 June, 2014, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Centre-braces-for-sub-normal-rains/articleshow/36316949.cms&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;centre-braces-for-sub-normal-rains-vishwa-mohan-rajeev-deshpande-4673089&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4673089,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 25057
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan &amp;amp; Rajeev Deshpande&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Agriculture,farming,rainfall,monsoon,Irrigation&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;
-The Times of India


&amp;nbsp;


NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.


&amp;quot;The government...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;-The Times of India&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;NEW DELHI: &lt;/em&gt;The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;The government is alert about the possibility of a subnormal monsoon this year and contingency plans are being prepared,&amp;quot; President Pranab Mukherjee said in his address to Parliament on Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The official word came as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said moderate El Nino conditions expected to develop in the tropical Pacific in the summer months would impact the monsoon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;While the agriculture ministry said it was ready to deal with crop, fodder and water shortages, the forecast will make the government&#039;s bid to improve growth and contain inflation, particularly in food, more challenging.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The high 70% probability of El Nino occurring during the monsoon (reported by TOI on June 9) and warmer than normal conditions have resulted in IMD revising its April 95% LPA forecast to 93%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The regional variations are more worrying. The food grain basket of the northwest is likely to receive the least rains at 85% of LPA, while the forecast is 94% and 93% in central and south India.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Only the northeast might escape the backlash of El Nino, with the region expected to receive 99% of the LPA rainfall.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Quantitatively, the season rainfall for the country as a whole is likely to be 93% of LPA with an error of plus-minus 4,&amp;quot; the IMD said in an official release.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;There is a 33% probability of less than 90% of LPA rainfall and a 38% probability of 90-96% of LPA while the probability of a normal monsoon is just 26%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The confirmation has served to strengthen the apprehension that the Modi government may soon be put to test if the monsoon underperforms and crop failures and droughts result.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Adding to the problem would be the possibility of floods in the northeast if the near normal predictions for the region hold true.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Agriculture ministry indicated that it was viewing the situation with due seriousness and said storage positions in major reservoirs was satisfactory and a buffer of 100 lakh tonnes of rice and 170 lakh tonnes of wheat was available&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The total stock stood at 206 lakh tonnes of rice and 415 lakh tonnes of wheat while crop contingency plans are in place for 500 of about 540 agricultural districts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Availability of seeds, delayed sowing, keeping aside 10% of funds under the national agriculture development scheme, construction of water harvesting structures and repairing tube wells is being planned.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The government is also ready to reschedule crop loans and provide interest subvention and allocate additional budget for accelerated fodder development.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/centre-braces-for-sub-normal-rains-vishwa-mohan-rajeev-deshpande-4673089.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan &amp; Rajeev Deshpande | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="
-The Times of India


&nbsp;


NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.


&quot;The government..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan &amp; Rajeev Deshpande</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div style="text-align: justify">-The Times of India</div><div style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</div><p style="text-align: justify"><em>NEW DELHI: </em>The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.</p><p style="text-align: justify">&quot;The government is alert about the possibility of a subnormal monsoon this year and contingency plans are being prepared,&quot; President Pranab Mukherjee said in his address to Parliament on Monday.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The official word came as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said moderate El Nino conditions expected to develop in the tropical Pacific in the summer months would impact the monsoon.</p><p style="text-align: justify">While the agriculture ministry said it was ready to deal with crop, fodder and water shortages, the forecast will make the government's bid to improve growth and contain inflation, particularly in food, more challenging.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The high 70% probability of El Nino occurring during the monsoon (reported by TOI on June 9) and warmer than normal conditions have resulted in IMD revising its April 95% LPA forecast to 93%.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The regional variations are more worrying. The food grain basket of the northwest is likely to receive the least rains at 85% of LPA, while the forecast is 94% and 93% in central and south India.</p><p style="text-align: justify">Only the northeast might escape the backlash of El Nino, with the region expected to receive 99% of the LPA rainfall.</p><p style="text-align: justify">&quot;Quantitatively, the season rainfall for the country as a whole is likely to be 93% of LPA with an error of plus-minus 4,&quot; the IMD said in an official release.</p><p style="text-align: justify">There is a 33% probability of less than 90% of LPA rainfall and a 38% probability of 90-96% of LPA while the probability of a normal monsoon is just 26%.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The confirmation has served to strengthen the apprehension that the Modi government may soon be put to test if the monsoon underperforms and crop failures and droughts result.</p><p style="text-align: justify">Adding to the problem would be the possibility of floods in the northeast if the near normal predictions for the region hold true.</p><p style="text-align: justify">Agriculture ministry indicated that it was viewing the situation with due seriousness and said storage positions in major reservoirs was satisfactory and a buffer of 100 lakh tonnes of rice and 170 lakh tonnes of wheat was available</p><p style="text-align: justify">The total stock stood at 206 lakh tonnes of rice and 415 lakh tonnes of wheat while crop contingency plans are in place for 500 of about 540 agricultural districts.</p><p style="text-align: justify">Availability of seeds, delayed sowing, keeping aside 10% of funds under the national agriculture development scheme, construction of water harvesting structures and repairing tube wells is being planned.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The government is also ready to reschedule crop loans and provide interest subvention and allocate additional budget for accelerated fodder development.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$reasonPhrase = 'OK'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitStatusLine() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 54
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
Code Context
                    $value

                ), $first);

                $first = false;
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f0720899071-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f0720899071-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67f0720899071-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f0720899071-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f0720899071-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f0720899071-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f0720899071-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67f0720899071-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67f0720899071-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 25057,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan &amp;amp; Rajeev Deshpande&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
-The Times of India
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;NEW DELHI: &lt;/em&gt;The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;The government is alert about the possibility of a subnormal monsoon this year and contingency plans are being prepared,&amp;quot; President Pranab Mukherjee said in his address to Parliament on Monday.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The official word came as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said moderate El Nino conditions expected to develop in the tropical Pacific in the summer months would impact the monsoon.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
While the agriculture ministry said it was ready to deal with crop, fodder and water shortages, the forecast will make the government&#039;s bid to improve growth and contain inflation, particularly in food, more challenging.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The high 70% probability of El Nino occurring during the monsoon (reported by TOI on June 9) and warmer than normal conditions have resulted in IMD revising its April 95% LPA forecast to 93%.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The regional variations are more worrying. The food grain basket of the northwest is likely to receive the least rains at 85% of LPA, while the forecast is 94% and 93% in central and south India.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Only the northeast might escape the backlash of El Nino, with the region expected to receive 99% of the LPA rainfall.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;Quantitatively, the season rainfall for the country as a whole is likely to be 93% of LPA with an error of plus-minus 4,&amp;quot; the IMD said in an official release.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
There is a 33% probability of less than 90% of LPA rainfall and a 38% probability of 90-96% of LPA while the probability of a normal monsoon is just 26%.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The confirmation has served to strengthen the apprehension that the Modi government may soon be put to test if the monsoon underperforms and crop failures and droughts result.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Adding to the problem would be the possibility of floods in the northeast if the near normal predictions for the region hold true.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Agriculture ministry indicated that it was viewing the situation with due seriousness and said storage positions in major reservoirs was satisfactory and a buffer of 100 lakh tonnes of rice and 170 lakh tonnes of wheat was available
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The total stock stood at 206 lakh tonnes of rice and 415 lakh tonnes of wheat while crop contingency plans are in place for 500 of about 540 agricultural districts.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Availability of seeds, delayed sowing, keeping aside 10% of funds under the national agriculture development scheme, construction of water harvesting structures and repairing tube wells is being planned.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The government is also ready to reschedule crop loans and provide interest subvention and allocate additional budget for accelerated fodder development.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 10 June, 2014, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Centre-braces-for-sub-normal-rains/articleshow/36316949.cms&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;centre-braces-for-sub-normal-rains-vishwa-mohan-rajeev-deshpande-4673089&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4673089,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 25057,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan &amp;amp; Rajeev Deshpande&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Agriculture,farming,rainfall,monsoon,Irrigation&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;
-The Times of India


&amp;nbsp;


NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.


&amp;quot;The government...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;-The Times of India&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;NEW DELHI: &lt;/em&gt;The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;The government is alert about the possibility of a subnormal monsoon this year and contingency plans are being prepared,&amp;quot; President Pranab Mukherjee said in his address to Parliament on Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The official word came as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said moderate El Nino conditions expected to develop in the tropical Pacific in the summer months would impact the monsoon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;While the agriculture ministry said it was ready to deal with crop, fodder and water shortages, the forecast will make the government&#039;s bid to improve growth and contain inflation, particularly in food, more challenging.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The high 70% probability of El Nino occurring during the monsoon (reported by TOI on June 9) and warmer than normal conditions have resulted in IMD revising its April 95% LPA forecast to 93%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The regional variations are more worrying. The food grain basket of the northwest is likely to receive the least rains at 85% of LPA, while the forecast is 94% and 93% in central and south India.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Only the northeast might escape the backlash of El Nino, with the region expected to receive 99% of the LPA rainfall.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Quantitatively, the season rainfall for the country as a whole is likely to be 93% of LPA with an error of plus-minus 4,&amp;quot; the IMD said in an official release.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;There is a 33% probability of less than 90% of LPA rainfall and a 38% probability of 90-96% of LPA while the probability of a normal monsoon is just 26%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The confirmation has served to strengthen the apprehension that the Modi government may soon be put to test if the monsoon underperforms and crop failures and droughts result.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Adding to the problem would be the possibility of floods in the northeast if the near normal predictions for the region hold true.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Agriculture ministry indicated that it was viewing the situation with due seriousness and said storage positions in major reservoirs was satisfactory and a buffer of 100 lakh tonnes of rice and 170 lakh tonnes of wheat was available&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The total stock stood at 206 lakh tonnes of rice and 415 lakh tonnes of wheat while crop contingency plans are in place for 500 of about 540 agricultural districts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Availability of seeds, delayed sowing, keeping aside 10% of funds under the national agriculture development scheme, construction of water harvesting structures and repairing tube wells is being planned.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The government is also ready to reschedule crop loans and provide interest subvention and allocate additional budget for accelerated fodder development.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 25057,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan &amp;amp; Rajeev Deshpande&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
-The Times of India
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;NEW DELHI: &lt;/em&gt;The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;The government is alert about the possibility of a subnormal monsoon this year and contingency plans are being prepared,&amp;quot; President Pranab Mukherjee said in his address to Parliament on Monday.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The official word came as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said moderate El Nino conditions expected to develop in the tropical Pacific in the summer months would impact the monsoon.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
While the agriculture ministry said it was ready to deal with crop, fodder and water shortages, the forecast will make the government&#039;s bid to improve growth and contain inflation, particularly in food, more challenging.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The high 70% probability of El Nino occurring during the monsoon (reported by TOI on June 9) and warmer than normal conditions have resulted in IMD revising its April 95% LPA forecast to 93%.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The regional variations are more worrying. The food grain basket of the northwest is likely to receive the least rains at 85% of LPA, while the forecast is 94% and 93% in central and south India.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Only the northeast might escape the backlash of El Nino, with the region expected to receive 99% of the LPA rainfall.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;Quantitatively, the season rainfall for the country as a whole is likely to be 93% of LPA with an error of plus-minus 4,&amp;quot; the IMD said in an official release.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
There is a 33% probability of less than 90% of LPA rainfall and a 38% probability of 90-96% of LPA while the probability of a normal monsoon is just 26%.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The confirmation has served to strengthen the apprehension that the Modi government may soon be put to test if the monsoon underperforms and crop failures and droughts result.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Adding to the problem would be the possibility of floods in the northeast if the near normal predictions for the region hold true.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Agriculture ministry indicated that it was viewing the situation with due seriousness and said storage positions in major reservoirs was satisfactory and a buffer of 100 lakh tonnes of rice and 170 lakh tonnes of wheat was available
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The total stock stood at 206 lakh tonnes of rice and 415 lakh tonnes of wheat while crop contingency plans are in place for 500 of about 540 agricultural districts.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Availability of seeds, delayed sowing, keeping aside 10% of funds under the national agriculture development scheme, construction of water harvesting structures and repairing tube wells is being planned.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The government is also ready to reschedule crop loans and provide interest subvention and allocate additional budget for accelerated fodder development.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 10 June, 2014, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Centre-braces-for-sub-normal-rains/articleshow/36316949.cms&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;centre-braces-for-sub-normal-rains-vishwa-mohan-rajeev-deshpande-4673089&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4673089,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 25057
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan &amp;amp; Rajeev Deshpande&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Agriculture,farming,rainfall,monsoon,Irrigation&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;
-The Times of India


&amp;nbsp;


NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.


&amp;quot;The government...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;-The Times of India&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;NEW DELHI: &lt;/em&gt;The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;The government is alert about the possibility of a subnormal monsoon this year and contingency plans are being prepared,&amp;quot; President Pranab Mukherjee said in his address to Parliament on Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The official word came as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said moderate El Nino conditions expected to develop in the tropical Pacific in the summer months would impact the monsoon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;While the agriculture ministry said it was ready to deal with crop, fodder and water shortages, the forecast will make the government&#039;s bid to improve growth and contain inflation, particularly in food, more challenging.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The high 70% probability of El Nino occurring during the monsoon (reported by TOI on June 9) and warmer than normal conditions have resulted in IMD revising its April 95% LPA forecast to 93%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The regional variations are more worrying. The food grain basket of the northwest is likely to receive the least rains at 85% of LPA, while the forecast is 94% and 93% in central and south India.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Only the northeast might escape the backlash of El Nino, with the region expected to receive 99% of the LPA rainfall.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Quantitatively, the season rainfall for the country as a whole is likely to be 93% of LPA with an error of plus-minus 4,&amp;quot; the IMD said in an official release.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;There is a 33% probability of less than 90% of LPA rainfall and a 38% probability of 90-96% of LPA while the probability of a normal monsoon is just 26%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The confirmation has served to strengthen the apprehension that the Modi government may soon be put to test if the monsoon underperforms and crop failures and droughts result.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Adding to the problem would be the possibility of floods in the northeast if the near normal predictions for the region hold true.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Agriculture ministry indicated that it was viewing the situation with due seriousness and said storage positions in major reservoirs was satisfactory and a buffer of 100 lakh tonnes of rice and 170 lakh tonnes of wheat was available&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The total stock stood at 206 lakh tonnes of rice and 415 lakh tonnes of wheat while crop contingency plans are in place for 500 of about 540 agricultural districts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Availability of seeds, delayed sowing, keeping aside 10% of funds under the national agriculture development scheme, construction of water harvesting structures and repairing tube wells is being planned.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The government is also ready to reschedule crop loans and provide interest subvention and allocate additional budget for accelerated fodder development.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/centre-braces-for-sub-normal-rains-vishwa-mohan-rajeev-deshpande-4673089.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan &amp; Rajeev Deshpande | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="
-The Times of India


&nbsp;


NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.


&quot;The government..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan &amp; Rajeev Deshpande</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div style="text-align: justify">-The Times of India</div><div style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</div><p style="text-align: justify"><em>NEW DELHI: </em>The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.</p><p style="text-align: justify">&quot;The government is alert about the possibility of a subnormal monsoon this year and contingency plans are being prepared,&quot; President Pranab Mukherjee said in his address to Parliament on Monday.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The official word came as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said moderate El Nino conditions expected to develop in the tropical Pacific in the summer months would impact the monsoon.</p><p style="text-align: justify">While the agriculture ministry said it was ready to deal with crop, fodder and water shortages, the forecast will make the government's bid to improve growth and contain inflation, particularly in food, more challenging.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The high 70% probability of El Nino occurring during the monsoon (reported by TOI on June 9) and warmer than normal conditions have resulted in IMD revising its April 95% LPA forecast to 93%.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The regional variations are more worrying. The food grain basket of the northwest is likely to receive the least rains at 85% of LPA, while the forecast is 94% and 93% in central and south India.</p><p style="text-align: justify">Only the northeast might escape the backlash of El Nino, with the region expected to receive 99% of the LPA rainfall.</p><p style="text-align: justify">&quot;Quantitatively, the season rainfall for the country as a whole is likely to be 93% of LPA with an error of plus-minus 4,&quot; the IMD said in an official release.</p><p style="text-align: justify">There is a 33% probability of less than 90% of LPA rainfall and a 38% probability of 90-96% of LPA while the probability of a normal monsoon is just 26%.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The confirmation has served to strengthen the apprehension that the Modi government may soon be put to test if the monsoon underperforms and crop failures and droughts result.</p><p style="text-align: justify">Adding to the problem would be the possibility of floods in the northeast if the near normal predictions for the region hold true.</p><p style="text-align: justify">Agriculture ministry indicated that it was viewing the situation with due seriousness and said storage positions in major reservoirs was satisfactory and a buffer of 100 lakh tonnes of rice and 170 lakh tonnes of wheat was available</p><p style="text-align: justify">The total stock stood at 206 lakh tonnes of rice and 415 lakh tonnes of wheat while crop contingency plans are in place for 500 of about 540 agricultural districts.</p><p style="text-align: justify">Availability of seeds, delayed sowing, keeping aside 10% of funds under the national agriculture development scheme, construction of water harvesting structures and repairing tube wells is being planned.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The government is also ready to reschedule crop loans and provide interest subvention and allocate additional budget for accelerated fodder development.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$cookies = []
$values = [
	(int) 0 => 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
]
$name = 'Content-Type'
$first = true
$value = 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitHeaders() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 55
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

<head>

    <link rel="canonical" href="<?php echo Configure::read('SITE_URL'); ?><?php echo $urlPrefix;?><?php echo $article_current->category->slug; ?>/<?php echo $article_current->seo_url; ?>.html"/>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

$viewFile = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp'
$dataForView = [
	'article_current' => object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		'id' => (int) 25057,
		'title' => 'Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan & Rajeev Deshpande',
		'subheading' => '',
		'description' => '<div style="text-align: justify">
-The Times of India
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
&nbsp;
</div>
<p style="text-align: justify">
<em>NEW DELHI: </em>The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
&quot;The government is alert about the possibility of a subnormal monsoon this year and contingency plans are being prepared,&quot; President Pranab Mukherjee said in his address to Parliament on Monday.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
The official word came as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said moderate El Nino conditions expected to develop in the tropical Pacific in the summer months would impact the monsoon.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
While the agriculture ministry said it was ready to deal with crop, fodder and water shortages, the forecast will make the government's bid to improve growth and contain inflation, particularly in food, more challenging.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
The high 70% probability of El Nino occurring during the monsoon (reported by TOI on June 9) and warmer than normal conditions have resulted in IMD revising its April 95% LPA forecast to 93%.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
The regional variations are more worrying. The food grain basket of the northwest is likely to receive the least rains at 85% of LPA, while the forecast is 94% and 93% in central and south India.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
Only the northeast might escape the backlash of El Nino, with the region expected to receive 99% of the LPA rainfall.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
&quot;Quantitatively, the season rainfall for the country as a whole is likely to be 93% of LPA with an error of plus-minus 4,&quot; the IMD said in an official release.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
There is a 33% probability of less than 90% of LPA rainfall and a 38% probability of 90-96% of LPA while the probability of a normal monsoon is just 26%.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
The confirmation has served to strengthen the apprehension that the Modi government may soon be put to test if the monsoon underperforms and crop failures and droughts result.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
Adding to the problem would be the possibility of floods in the northeast if the near normal predictions for the region hold true.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
Agriculture ministry indicated that it was viewing the situation with due seriousness and said storage positions in major reservoirs was satisfactory and a buffer of 100 lakh tonnes of rice and 170 lakh tonnes of wheat was available
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
The total stock stood at 206 lakh tonnes of rice and 415 lakh tonnes of wheat while crop contingency plans are in place for 500 of about 540 agricultural districts.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
Availability of seeds, delayed sowing, keeping aside 10% of funds under the national agriculture development scheme, construction of water harvesting structures and repairing tube wells is being planned.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
The government is also ready to reschedule crop loans and provide interest subvention and allocate additional budget for accelerated fodder development.
</p>
<p>
&nbsp;
</p>',
		'credit_writer' => 'The Times of India, 10 June, 2014, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Centre-braces-for-sub-normal-rains/articleshow/36316949.cms',
		'article_img' => '',
		'article_img_thumb' => '',
		'status' => (int) 1,
		'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
		'lang' => 'EN',
		'category_id' => (int) 16,
		'tag_keyword' => '',
		'seo_url' => 'centre-braces-for-sub-normal-rains-vishwa-mohan-rajeev-deshpande-4673089',
		'meta_title' => null,
		'meta_keywords' => null,
		'meta_description' => null,
		'noindex' => (int) 0,
		'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		'most_visit_section_id' => null,
		'article_big_img' => null,
		'liveid' => (int) 4673089,
		'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'edate' => '',
		'tags' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		'[new]' => false,
		'[accessible]' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[hasErrors]' => false,
		'[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[repository]' => 'Articles'
	
	},
	'articleid' => (int) 25057,
	'metaTitle' => 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan &amp; Rajeev Deshpande',
	'metaKeywords' => 'Agriculture,farming,rainfall,monsoon,Irrigation',
	'metaDesc' => '
-The Times of India


&nbsp;


NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.


&quot;The government...',
	'disp' => '<div style="text-align: justify">-The Times of India</div><div style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</div><p style="text-align: justify"><em>NEW DELHI: </em>The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.</p><p style="text-align: justify">&quot;The government is alert about the possibility of a subnormal monsoon this year and contingency plans are being prepared,&quot; President Pranab Mukherjee said in his address to Parliament on Monday.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The official word came as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said moderate El Nino conditions expected to develop in the tropical Pacific in the summer months would impact the monsoon.</p><p style="text-align: justify">While the agriculture ministry said it was ready to deal with crop, fodder and water shortages, the forecast will make the government's bid to improve growth and contain inflation, particularly in food, more challenging.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The high 70% probability of El Nino occurring during the monsoon (reported by TOI on June 9) and warmer than normal conditions have resulted in IMD revising its April 95% LPA forecast to 93%.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The regional variations are more worrying. The food grain basket of the northwest is likely to receive the least rains at 85% of LPA, while the forecast is 94% and 93% in central and south India.</p><p style="text-align: justify">Only the northeast might escape the backlash of El Nino, with the region expected to receive 99% of the LPA rainfall.</p><p style="text-align: justify">&quot;Quantitatively, the season rainfall for the country as a whole is likely to be 93% of LPA with an error of plus-minus 4,&quot; the IMD said in an official release.</p><p style="text-align: justify">There is a 33% probability of less than 90% of LPA rainfall and a 38% probability of 90-96% of LPA while the probability of a normal monsoon is just 26%.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The confirmation has served to strengthen the apprehension that the Modi government may soon be put to test if the monsoon underperforms and crop failures and droughts result.</p><p style="text-align: justify">Adding to the problem would be the possibility of floods in the northeast if the near normal predictions for the region hold true.</p><p style="text-align: justify">Agriculture ministry indicated that it was viewing the situation with due seriousness and said storage positions in major reservoirs was satisfactory and a buffer of 100 lakh tonnes of rice and 170 lakh tonnes of wheat was available</p><p style="text-align: justify">The total stock stood at 206 lakh tonnes of rice and 415 lakh tonnes of wheat while crop contingency plans are in place for 500 of about 540 agricultural districts.</p><p style="text-align: justify">Availability of seeds, delayed sowing, keeping aside 10% of funds under the national agriculture development scheme, construction of water harvesting structures and repairing tube wells is being planned.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The government is also ready to reschedule crop loans and provide interest subvention and allocate additional budget for accelerated fodder development.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>',
	'lang' => 'English',
	'SITE_URL' => 'https://im4change.in/',
	'site_title' => 'im4change',
	'adminprix' => 'admin'
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	'id' => (int) 25057,
	'title' => 'Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan &amp; Rajeev Deshpande',
	'subheading' => '',
	'description' => '<div style="text-align: justify">
-The Times of India
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
&nbsp;
</div>
<p style="text-align: justify">
<em>NEW DELHI: </em>The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
&quot;The government is alert about the possibility of a subnormal monsoon this year and contingency plans are being prepared,&quot; President Pranab Mukherjee said in his address to Parliament on Monday.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
The official word came as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said moderate El Nino conditions expected to develop in the tropical Pacific in the summer months would impact the monsoon.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
While the agriculture ministry said it was ready to deal with crop, fodder and water shortages, the forecast will make the government's bid to improve growth and contain inflation, particularly in food, more challenging.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
The high 70% probability of El Nino occurring during the monsoon (reported by TOI on June 9) and warmer than normal conditions have resulted in IMD revising its April 95% LPA forecast to 93%.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
The regional variations are more worrying. The food grain basket of the northwest is likely to receive the least rains at 85% of LPA, while the forecast is 94% and 93% in central and south India.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
Only the northeast might escape the backlash of El Nino, with the region expected to receive 99% of the LPA rainfall.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
&quot;Quantitatively, the season rainfall for the country as a whole is likely to be 93% of LPA with an error of plus-minus 4,&quot; the IMD said in an official release.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
There is a 33% probability of less than 90% of LPA rainfall and a 38% probability of 90-96% of LPA while the probability of a normal monsoon is just 26%.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
The confirmation has served to strengthen the apprehension that the Modi government may soon be put to test if the monsoon underperforms and crop failures and droughts result.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
Adding to the problem would be the possibility of floods in the northeast if the near normal predictions for the region hold true.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
Agriculture ministry indicated that it was viewing the situation with due seriousness and said storage positions in major reservoirs was satisfactory and a buffer of 100 lakh tonnes of rice and 170 lakh tonnes of wheat was available
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
The total stock stood at 206 lakh tonnes of rice and 415 lakh tonnes of wheat while crop contingency plans are in place for 500 of about 540 agricultural districts.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
Availability of seeds, delayed sowing, keeping aside 10% of funds under the national agriculture development scheme, construction of water harvesting structures and repairing tube wells is being planned.
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">
The government is also ready to reschedule crop loans and provide interest subvention and allocate additional budget for accelerated fodder development.
</p>
<p>
&nbsp;
</p>',
	'credit_writer' => 'The Times of India, 10 June, 2014, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Centre-braces-for-sub-normal-rains/articleshow/36316949.cms',
	'article_img' => '',
	'article_img_thumb' => '',
	'status' => (int) 1,
	'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
	'lang' => 'EN',
	'category_id' => (int) 16,
	'tag_keyword' => '',
	'seo_url' => 'centre-braces-for-sub-normal-rains-vishwa-mohan-rajeev-deshpande-4673089',
	'meta_title' => null,
	'meta_keywords' => null,
	'meta_description' => null,
	'noindex' => (int) 0,
	'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	'most_visit_section_id' => null,
	'article_big_img' => null,
	'liveid' => (int) 4673089,
	'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'edate' => '',
	'tags' => [
		(int) 0 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	'[new]' => false,
	'[accessible]' => [
		'*' => true,
		'id' => false
	],
	'[dirty]' => [],
	'[original]' => [],
	'[virtual]' => [],
	'[hasErrors]' => false,
	'[errors]' => [],
	'[invalid]' => [],
	'[repository]' => 'Articles'

}
$articleid = (int) 25057
$metaTitle = 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan &amp; Rajeev Deshpande'
$metaKeywords = 'Agriculture,farming,rainfall,monsoon,Irrigation'
$metaDesc = '
-The Times of India


&nbsp;


NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.


&quot;The government...'
$disp = '<div style="text-align: justify">-The Times of India</div><div style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</div><p style="text-align: justify"><em>NEW DELHI: </em>The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall.</p><p style="text-align: justify">&quot;The government is alert about the possibility of a subnormal monsoon this year and contingency plans are being prepared,&quot; President Pranab Mukherjee said in his address to Parliament on Monday.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The official word came as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said moderate El Nino conditions expected to develop in the tropical Pacific in the summer months would impact the monsoon.</p><p style="text-align: justify">While the agriculture ministry said it was ready to deal with crop, fodder and water shortages, the forecast will make the government's bid to improve growth and contain inflation, particularly in food, more challenging.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The high 70% probability of El Nino occurring during the monsoon (reported by TOI on June 9) and warmer than normal conditions have resulted in IMD revising its April 95% LPA forecast to 93%.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The regional variations are more worrying. The food grain basket of the northwest is likely to receive the least rains at 85% of LPA, while the forecast is 94% and 93% in central and south India.</p><p style="text-align: justify">Only the northeast might escape the backlash of El Nino, with the region expected to receive 99% of the LPA rainfall.</p><p style="text-align: justify">&quot;Quantitatively, the season rainfall for the country as a whole is likely to be 93% of LPA with an error of plus-minus 4,&quot; the IMD said in an official release.</p><p style="text-align: justify">There is a 33% probability of less than 90% of LPA rainfall and a 38% probability of 90-96% of LPA while the probability of a normal monsoon is just 26%.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The confirmation has served to strengthen the apprehension that the Modi government may soon be put to test if the monsoon underperforms and crop failures and droughts result.</p><p style="text-align: justify">Adding to the problem would be the possibility of floods in the northeast if the near normal predictions for the region hold true.</p><p style="text-align: justify">Agriculture ministry indicated that it was viewing the situation with due seriousness and said storage positions in major reservoirs was satisfactory and a buffer of 100 lakh tonnes of rice and 170 lakh tonnes of wheat was available</p><p style="text-align: justify">The total stock stood at 206 lakh tonnes of rice and 415 lakh tonnes of wheat while crop contingency plans are in place for 500 of about 540 agricultural districts.</p><p style="text-align: justify">Availability of seeds, delayed sowing, keeping aside 10% of funds under the national agriculture development scheme, construction of water harvesting structures and repairing tube wells is being planned.</p><p style="text-align: justify">The government is also ready to reschedule crop loans and provide interest subvention and allocate additional budget for accelerated fodder development.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>'
$lang = 'English'
$SITE_URL = 'https://im4change.in/'
$site_title = 'im4change'
$adminprix = 'admin'

include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51

Centre braces for sub-normal rains -Vishwa Mohan & Rajeev Deshpande

-The Times of India   NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government officially acknowledged that it is gearing for its first big test with the Met downgrading its monsoon forecast from 95% to a likely 93% of the long period average rainfall. "The government is alert about the possibility of a subnormal monsoon this year and contingency plans are being prepared," President Pranab Mukherjee said in his address to Parliament on Monday. The official word came as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said moderate El Nino conditions expected to develop in the tropical Pacific in the summer months would impact the monsoon. While the agriculture ministry said it was ready to deal with crop, fodder and water shortages, the forecast will make the government's bid to improve growth and contain inflation, particularly in food, more challenging. The high 70% probability of El Nino occurring during the monsoon (reported by TOI on June 9) and warmer than normal conditions have resulted in IMD revising its April 95% LPA forecast to 93%. The regional variations are more worrying. The food grain basket of the northwest is likely to receive the least rains at 85% of LPA, while the forecast is 94% and 93% in central and south India. Only the northeast might escape the backlash of El Nino, with the region expected to receive 99% of the LPA rainfall. "Quantitatively, the season rainfall for the country as a whole is likely to be 93% of LPA with an error of plus-minus 4," the IMD said in an official release. There is a 33% probability of less than 90% of LPA rainfall and a 38% probability of 90-96% of LPA while the probability of a normal monsoon is just 26%. The confirmation has served to strengthen the apprehension that the Modi government may soon be put to test if the monsoon underperforms and crop failures and droughts result. Adding to the problem would be the possibility of floods in the northeast if the near normal predictions for the region hold true. Agriculture ministry indicated that it was viewing the situation with due seriousness and said storage positions in major reservoirs was satisfactory and a buffer of 100 lakh tonnes of rice and 170 lakh tonnes of wheat was available The total stock stood at 206 lakh tonnes of rice and 415 lakh tonnes of wheat while crop contingency plans are in place for 500 of about 540 agricultural districts. Availability of seeds, delayed sowing, keeping aside 10% of funds under the national agriculture development scheme, construction of water harvesting structures and repairing tube wells is being planned. The government is also ready to reschedule crop loans and provide interest subvention and allocate additional budget for accelerated fodder development.