Food Crisis

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Monsoon 25% down, food, water crises loom</b>
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Santanu Banerjee | New Delhi
With three consecutive phases of monsoon failure, the UPA Government has decided to take up the issue of emerging crisis-like situation in food scenario with Chief Ministers and top State Government officials.

According to the data released by the Ministry of Earth Sciences on the basis of India Meteorological Department (IMD) bulletin on Friday, there has been a trend of weakening of monsoon, which has witnessed a departure of 25 per cent (deficient) from long period average (LPA) prediction. <b>The deficiency is spread over four broad homogeneous regions in the country over a period calculated from June 1 to August 5</b>.

The IMD bulletin has shown that from July 30 to August 5 the country as a whole recorded minus 64 per cent rainfall. This, coupled with shooting prices of essential commodities, has brought bad tidings for the Government, despite Agriculture Ministry’s claim of a comfort situation as last year there was a bumper crop.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->It also said that the trend deteriorated from deficient to s<b>canty rainfall condition over Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi and from normal to deficient condition over Jammu & Kashmir, West and East Rajasthan, West Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat region, Vidarbha and Chhattisgarh</b>.’<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->