Annual climate summary 2023
The report discusses the climate condition over Indian region during the year 2023. Notably, global temperatures soared to exceptionally high levels during this period (WMO.No.1347). The India Meteorological
The report discusses the climate condition over Indian region during the year 2023. Notably, global temperatures soared to exceptionally high levels during this period (WMO.No.1347). The India Meteorological
With the southwest monsoon playing truant in northeast and central India, the Centre has asked States to be ready with alternate crops that are hardy, and can withstand dry conditions. There are reports that in some north-western states, farmers have slowed down sowing, in the hope that the monsoon will arrive or revive in the first week of July. So far, 74 per cent of the country has received deficient rain since the onset of southwest monsoon on June 5, raising serious concerns in the farming community.
States asked to send proposals for additional funds Weak performance of monsoon this year has led the government to anticipate a significant increase in demand for work under its flagship rural employment
With the South-West monsoon weakening in the middle of its course, almost half the State is thirsting for rains. As many as 14 districts have received deficient rainfall in June leaving the farming community
The U.S. space agency NASA said Thursday that it was leaving the door open to reviving a canceled plan for a major Southeast Asia climate study that may have run afoul of internal Thai politics. No
With several states reeling under a drought-like situation as they await the monsoon, experts have pointed out that not enough is being done to deal with the situation arising out of scanty rainfall. Drought management, they say, assumes significance in view of changing weather patterns. “We are not prepared to handle the effects of climate change on agriculture. It is reflected through our management of drought situation in states like Karnataka, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh,” veteran agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan told IANS.
More than 55 people have been killed in landslides in southeast Bangladesh after three days of rains that triggered flash floods and severed transport links, officials said on Wednesday. The army has been deployed to help with search and rescue efforts in the affected hill region of Chittagong, said the region's chief administrator, Sirajul Haq Khan, who warned that the toll could rise.
Itanagar: While Chief Minister Nabam Tuki sounded a red alarm on the deteriorating flood situation with unabated flood fury by nonstop heavy downpour, Bordumsa ADC Kento Riba has sought helicopter service to rescue about 300 people marooned in Vijaypur-III village in Bordumsa circle of Changlang district since midnight of June 23 after swollen Noa-Dehing river tore apart the village into two breaking its embankment.
It might still be too early to say so but indications of a good monsoon this season are fast receding. With the first month of the four-month season almost over, there is already a 23 per cent deficiency
The food ministry on Thursday assured the nation all efforts were being made to ensure foodgrains were not damaged because of improper storage. This, despite the fact that due to poor storage facilities, 6.61 million tonnes remain vulnerable to the vagaries of the impending southwest monsoon. “I can assure all the best efforts are being made to ensure no grain is damaged in the monsoon,” Food Minister K V Thomas told reporters. He added of the total foodgrain stock in central pool, estimated at about 82 million tones, about 87 per cent was in safe storage facilities.
New Delhi Buoyed by two straight years of bumper grain harvests, the government said on Thursday it would supply nearly 10% more quality seeds than the requirement this summer to ensure sowing doesn’t get adversely affected. The government will supply 14.18 million quintal of quality seeds this summer, compared with the demand of 12.96 million quintal, the agriculture ministry said in a statement.