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Double trouble -Jaideep Hardikar

-The Telegraph

While the BJP and Opposition continue with their political machinations, the larger issues on the ground are these: climatic aberrations and consequent losses

How are we supposed to deal with long, dry spells as well as sudden and extreme rainfall in the same season? Or drought in one state and floods in another,for that matter? While the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Opposition continue with their political machinations, the larger issues before the people on the ground at this point are these: climatic aberrations and consequent losses. We’d do well to smell the coffee and see the elephant in our drawing rooms.

June saw the country receiving abysmal rains, paralysing kharif sowings; central India was badly affected. There was no government in place in Maharashtra at that time. Sowings came a dud, prompting hundreds of thousands of farmers to go for a resowing because the rains failed to show up on time. Then, it started raining cats and dogs in July for long stretches without any let up, leading to floods, soil erosion and flattening everything that had just germinated.

Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh,southern Madhya Pradesh and parts of Chhattisgarh have seen massive soil erosion — topsoil washed away with heavy rains, leading to a crisis that will take years before it can be undone. If you lose topsoil, you lose much of your income for years.It’s mid-August and many parts of India have witnessed both long, dry spells and extreme to heavy rainfall, causing flash floods that washed away topsoil — over 1.5 million hectares in Maharashtra alone by preliminary estimates — and led to irreversible devastation of kharif crops.

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