<p>As per the report ‘United in Science: the high-level synthesis report of latest science information convened by the Science Advisory Group of the UN Climate Action Summit’, published by
New Delhi: Expecting the manifestation of weak to moderate El Nino conditions in September, sources in the Indian Meteorological Department have said that the last month of the monsoon is likely to have
The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation has cut its global forecast for rice paddy production this year by 7.8 million tonnes to 724.5 million tonnes — the downward revision mainly because
The Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) has remained remarkably stable during the last 140 years. The ISMR has varied between 70% and 120% of the long-term average of about 85 cm. Monsoon seasons with
GUWAHATI, Aug 8 – Guwahati needs a stringent legislation for rainwater harvesting to save it from rain-caused flash flood. In this respect the city should emulate the example of the Chennai city. This
Conditions In Pacific Moving To A Threshold New Delhi: The puzzle over this year’s truant monsoon may deepen with major forecasters now seeing the conditions in the Pacific approaching a threshold or
Chandigarh: Punjab farmers, who are watering their paddy crop on diesel-run motors because of a deficient monsoon and frequent power cuts, are in for more trouble. The India Meteorological Department (IMD)
The southwest monsoon in India this year was expected to be 85 per cent of the long-period average (LPA), with Punjab, Haryana, Saurashtra and Kutch regions in Gujarat and western Rajasthan experiencing drought-like conditions, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Friday. The forecast has a model error margin of +/- four per cent. IMD considers the 50-year average rainfall of 89 cms as the LPA. Addressing reporters a day after it lowered its overall southwest monsoon forecast from normal to deficient, IMD said drought-like conditions were developing in several parts of the country.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday made a downward revision of monsoon rainfall this season to “deficient” category revealing that the rainfall during June-September period will be less
Centre Announces Subsidy On Diesel, Seeds For Farmers New Delhi: India could be staring at a drought worse than the one it experienced in 2009. Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar informed that nearly
The drought tag will help banks restructure farm loans; States can offer diesel subsidy Rains in the last one week speeded up the planting of soya bean and rice while sugar cane acreage expanded beyond
