We will reach a situation in which despite economic growth, we unable to meet
our basic needs due to food shortage
India's Drought Is Worst Since 1972
http://e360.yale.edu/content/digest.msp?id=2078
01 Oct 2009:
Drought in India is Worst Since 1972, Government Says
With India’s four-month monsoon season now officially over, the nation’s
meteorological department has announced that the country is experiencing the
worst drought in 37 years, with rains 23 percent below normal. Especially
hard-hit have been the region’s major rice- and cereal-growing regions in the
UNEP
northern and western states of Punjab, Haryana, and Rajasthan, where rains this
year were 36 percent below normal. That region is also rapidly depleting its
underground water supplies, as farmers with inexpensive diesel pumps extract
irrigation water at an unsustainable rate, a trend that scientists warn could
threaten Indian agriculture in the coming decades. The Indian government says
the country has 52 million tons of wheat and rice in reserve, enough to last a
year. But the drought and feeble monsoon rains have caused economic hardship
for many of the 600 million Indians who still depend on agriculture for their
livelihood.
With Regards
Abi
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice
he is the worst”
- Aristotle
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