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Updated: 15/07/2009 | 12:06 AM IST
Where are the rains?
Sidharth Pandey and Manu Sharma
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 (New Delhi)
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India's dependence on rain to feed its crops is causing many a headache as the monsoon that gave a brief preview, has now gone away. India's grain bowl is parched and if it stays that way the next harvest will be badly hit.

Even RJD chief Lalu Yadav has said said a drought looms. “The weather has played truant this time. We are now looking at a drought,” he said.
MS Swaminathan, an agriculture scientist, said, "It (rains) is behaving rather erratically. On the map it is no good if we have a full quota of rain say on a day. It is important to have it spread over time.”

Some scientists fear the worst, if it doesn't rain enough soon.

Ramesh Chand, a national professor at ICAR, said, "The situation is very serious. Infact more serious than we perhaps realise but can we call it a drought yet? I’ll stop just short of calling it that.”

To be sure, there is still time—about 2-3 weeks more—to sow the next crop.

In fact the probability of rain expected is just 60 per cent and that too is likely to be sporadic and isolated.

Most of India’s crop growing area, 80 per cent, is in the northwest. The government is working on a contingency plan for farmers, in case there's not enough rain, the effect on the economy could be bigger.

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