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Drought Management

The strategy for this management is basically threefold.

Close monitoring of the emerging drought scenario so as develop an advance warning system
Relief measures required for providing immediate succour to the affected population and the upkeep of the cattle wealth, and if possible to integrate it with long term objectives and
Hammering out an alternative crop strategy for maximum possible retrieval of the Kharif crop and a better ensuing Rubi crop.

Since drought prediction methods are at a very nascent stage, IMD has made efforts to provide a long range forecast of monsoon rainfall. In 1988, a parametric power regression model was developed on the basis of global and regional meteorological and oceanic parameters (physically related monsoon and rainfall) for estimating the monsoon rainfall of India. The model is successful in estimating the correct nature of monsoon and can be utilized for drought mitigation planning. IMD carries out rainfall monitoring unto district level on a real time basis. All this helps in estimating the drought conditions over any particular region

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