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Its official now: this is a drought year [1]

With three quarters of all districts receiving deficient rainfall so far and the overall rain deficit worsening since last week, the country seems headed into the worst drought year over the last two decades.

Publication Date: 
14/08/2009
Indian Express (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Natural Disasters [3], Droughts [4], Crop Yield [5], Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) [6], Ministry Of Agriculture [7], Rainfall [8]
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[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rainfall