Title: Integrating regional climate and drought characteristics for effective assessment and mitigation of droughts in India
Abstract: In India, the occurrence of drought is linked with the amount, distribution, time of onset, and withdrawal of monsoon rainfall. Since monsoon rainfall is highly erratic and unevenly distributed, drought conditions may prevail in almost any year in one part of the country or another. Droughts have substantial economic, environmental, and social impacts, especially in arid and semi-arid regions of India where rainfed agriculture predominates. For example, persistent drought conditions between 2001 and 2003 resulted in serious crop losses and contributed to mass migration of people and livestock in the states of Rajasthan and Gujarat.
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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