"deficit-rainfall"

Telangana’s annual Vanamahotsavam plantation drive has slowed down, with only 16.62 per cent of the target achieved more than a month after its launch. Deficient rainfall has raised concerns over sapling survival, even as plantation targets have been reduced year-on-year due to limited land availability.

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