Farms suffer rare back-to-back droughts in India

For the first time in three decades, India has “experienced back-to-back monsoon failures,” says The Indian Express. “The just-ended south-west monsoon season has registered an overall rainfall deficit of 14.3 percent relative to the ‘normal’ long period average for June-September, according to data from the India Meteorological Department.” Monsoon rainfall in 2014 was 11.9-percent below… » Read More

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