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Drought threat rises as rain forecast worsens [1]

New Delhi: Though the government is still chary of pronouncing a full-scale crisis over the errant monsoon and depleted sowing, prospects of more parts of the country being declared drought affected are increasing with the Met department on Monday downgrading its rainfall forecast from 93% of long-term average to 87%.

Publication Date: 
11/08/2009
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
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Agriculture [3], Weather Predictions [4], GDP [5], Droughts [6], India [7], Rainfall [8]
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