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The government is putting in place a contingency plan to mitigate harm and protect farmers and farm output as chances of El Nino in the monsoon this year rises, said senior officials...
The ministry of agriculture and farmers' welfare has set up a system for specific advisory services and forecasts for the main agricultural belt of the country based on different rainfall scenarios..
It will also come out with agromet advisories specific to different regions to help farmers take appropriate steps to mitigate any damage to crops...
"We are constantly monitoring the situation," said a senior official adding that despite the chances of El Nino, the weather office has predicted a normal rainfall this monsoon season...
However, the IMD also clarified that about 40% of the El Nino years in the past, from 1951 to 2022, were years with normal or above normal monsoon rainfall.. El Nino is a climate pattern that describes the unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean..
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