Impacts on Indian agriculture
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- Agriculture will be adversely affected not only by an increase or decrease in the overall amounts of rainfall but also by shifts in the timing of the rainfall.
- Summer rainfall accounts for almost 70 per cent of the total annual rainfall over India and is crucial to Indian agriculture
- Semi-arid regions of western India are expected to receive higher than normal rainfall as temperatures soar, while central India will experience a decrease of between 10 and 20 per cent in winter rainfall by the 2050s
- There would be a decline in the productivity of rabi as compared to kharif season crops
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