2007Aug7: Jacques Diouf, the head of the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization, says that increased droughts and floods due to climate change could destroy large areas of Indian farmland. “Rain-fed agriculture in marginal areas in semi-arid and sub-humid regions is mostly at risk…India could lose 125 million tons of its rain-fed cereal production – equivalent to 18% of its total production,” Diouf said (IHT, 2007).
Reference: International Herald Tribune. 2007. http://iht.com/articles/2007/08/07/asia/07floods.php
Image Description: The dry bed of the Niranjana River, Bihar. Photo by Hyougushi, 2006May19. Image Location: Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Niranjana_dry_river_bed_bihar_india.jpg Image Permission: This file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License.
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