-Seema Javed-

The country receives four months of rain and the stage is set for it. It is done. 19 May The southwest monsoon has knocked in the southeast Bay of Bengal. From there it has moved towards Nicobar Islands and South Andaman Sea.

) The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) had already confirmed the highest possibility of normal monsoon this year. Although scientists have already said that climate change will affect the Indian monsoon. Significantly, Dr. Roxy Mathew of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) Pune does not agree with this forecast of the Meteorological Department. According to him, this announcement is completely irrational. Rainfall has decreased during the last years. There has been an increase in incidents like sudden heavy rains and floods. But the total rainy days are decreasing.

Actually normal monsoon means regular rains in four months of rain and not heavy rains for one month and only drizzling for the remaining three months. In such a situation, even if the level of rainfall is normal, this pattern is not normal, nor does it benefit the farmers. On the contrary, due to the heavy rains earlier, the crop gets ruined and later due to lack of rain, it dries up.

It should be known that the effect of El Nino has increased all over the world, due to which the four most of 4273 Likely to be one of the hotter years. years compared to pre-industrial levels 1. °C has been warmer, India’s temperature rise The trend is slightly lower than the global average. According to the Meteorological Department, due to global warming Over the years, the frequency and duration of heatwaves have increased by about 2.5 days in the hot regions of the country. While the duration and frequency of cold wave has decreased during this period. Simply put, the heat is increasing year by year. The increasing effect of climate change is increasing the uncertainty in the weather around the world and India is no exception to it. The weather pattern is constantly changing.

At present the onset of monsoon is slightly delayed in Kerala. The arrival of monsoon along the coast of Kerala marks the beginning of the rainy season. The Meteorological Department (IMD) believes that the monsoon will reach Kerala on 4 June. Monsoon in Kerala last year was reached on May. Due to the late arrival of monsoon in Kerala, the rainy season will start late in other parts of the country as well.

Under these circumstances lakhs of small farmers are raising their eyes towards the sky, their daily bread (crop) depends on the monsoon every year. Farmers who grew mustard in rabi are now sowing cotton as harvesting of rabi wheat was delayed due to rain. Unseasonal rains and hailstorm had destroyed the standing wheat crop, delaying harvesting. Many farmers claim that the weather in the last few years has been quite unpredictable and cotton cultivation has also become risky.

(Author environmentalist Are)

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Thu, Jun 1, 2023, 5: 06 PM IST