*Are We Heading For A Drought?* * The agriculture ministry is preparing a contingency plan to prevent food shortage *
* 12 June 2009* ** *(AP)* *For the first time in 30 years, India stares at the probability of a drought, which threatens to worsen the already precarious food demand-supply balance and plunge the country into a deeper food security crisis. * *The agriculture ministry is preparing a contingency plan to prevent food shortage if the monsoon fails this year. The alarm has been raised by the latest forecast from the Indian Meteorological Department’s dynamic and statistical models, which indicate the probability of a weak La Nina (cold ocean temperature in the Pacific region) and El Nino (warm ocean temperature in the Pacific region) till May end.* *Whole article from Business World posted + Recent press release from IMD at http://tanmaygopal.blogspot.com/2009/06/are-we-heading-for-drought-agriculture.html * --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""GLOBAL SPECULATORS"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalspeculators?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
