"deficit-rainfall"

Average rainfall by this time of every year in Hyderabad is 179.5 mm while the actual rainfall received is 83.6 mm, which is 53 per cent deficit rainfall

According to IMD data, the rainfall in July was unevenly distributed, both spatially and temporally

Farmers could not take up sowing of any other dry crops such as maize, red gram and other crops due to lack of adequate rainfall