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As drought looms on India, fear for its livestock farmers [1]

Mhaswad Armed with the latest monsoon rainfall data, weather experts finally conceded this month that India is facing a drought, confirming what millions of livestock farmers around the country had known for weeks.

For over three months, even state agencies have been providing free fodder to those most vulnerable to a shortfall in India’s annual monsoon — farmers who eke a living out of small landholdings and the milk provided by cattle.

Publication Date: 
14/08/2012
Financial Express (New Delhi) [2]
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India [3], Monsoons [4], Rainfall [5], Drought [6], Livestock [7], Farmers [8], Mumbai [9], Irrigation [10], Agriculture [11], Animal Care [12], Punjab [13], Haryana [14], Rajasthan [15], Gujarat [16], Karnataka [17], Natural Disasters [18]
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