-Down to Earth India received a total of 85.8 mm of rain between June 1 and June 28 against the lowest ever 85.7 mm in 2009 A special release by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) shows that the June of 2014 is one of the driest Junes since record keeping began in 1901. According to this release, India received a total of 85.8 mm of rain between June 1 and June 28....
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Drought Mitigation in Tamil Nadu -S Rajendran
-Economic and Political Weekly Sustained and focused efforts have to be made by the Tamil Nadu state government to provide relief and rehabilitation to the drought affected people of the state. S Rajendran (myrajendran@gmail.com) is with the Department of Economics, Periyar University, Salem, Tamil Nadu. Due to the failure of the north-east monsoon in December 2013, Tamil Nadu is witnessing drought like conditions this year, leading to poor agricultural productivity, rural distress,...
More »Dry spell pushes up prices of food grains -Shishir Arya
-The Times of India NAGPUR: If the post election period had provided some respite to consumers with prices of food grains going down amid fears of a crackdown on hoarders in the Modi regime, low rainfall has led to a rebound in the last one week. After the new government took over, prices of several food items had eased from the level during the election time. Traders say news of poor monsoon has...
More »India’s rainfall patterns changing drastically, say Stanford scientists -Anushka Kaushik
-Down to Earth Longer dry spells and wetter wet spells could spell doom for the Indian Agriculture, they warn Tough times are ahead for the Indian Agriculture which is highly dependent on the summer monsoon. According to a study by scientists from Stanford University in the United States, there has been a consistent drop in the average seasonal rainfall India receives during the summer monsoon months of July-August. The study also warns...
More »Agriculture dept submits contingency plan for weak monsoon -Sachin Saini
-The Hindustan Times Jaipur: Keeping in view the possibility of poor monsoon this year, the state Agriculture department has submitted a contingency crop plan - Kharif 2014 -to the disaster and relief department. In the plan, the Agriculture department has suggested that through proper technical guidance to farmers loss in agricultural production could be curbed in case of weak or non-uniform monsoon in the state. The department has given various suggestions including...
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