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Three kinds of drought (Editorial) [1]

There are three different types of drought, not one. There is a meteorological drought, when actual rainfall is deficient (20 per cent below normal) or scanty (60 per cent or more below normal). The Indian Meteorological Department has now declared a deficiency of 29 per cent in the south-west monsoon. Let

Publication Date: 
19/08/2009
Bibek Debroy [2]
Indian Express (New Delhi) [3]
Tags:
Green Revolution [4], Weather Predictions [5], Natural Disasters [6], Drought [7], Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) [8], India [9], Rainfall [10]

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