Production of kharif crops, mainly paddy has been adversely affected in all 24 districts of the state due to scanty rainfall. The state government has constituted district-level task forces comprising officials of agriculture, water resources and disaster management departments to visit districts to estimate the losses because of poor monsoon and suggest ways to mitigate it through alternate crops.

During April to June this year, against a normal rainfall of 263 mm, the entire state received only about 127 mm, a deficit of 52 per cent. Till July 15, the state had received 104 mm rainfall against a normal average of 325 for the entire month.