New Delhi, June 24: What should the government do to tackle a possible failure of monsoon? Agriculture Secretaries of states that have not received rainfall will meet Union Agriculture Secretary tomorrow and search for answers.
About 60 per cent of the total cultivable area of 140 million hectare is rain fed, while the rest is irrigated.
Southwest monsoon, which had brought cheer to the farming community due to its early onset on May 23, had stopped in its tracks over Konkan region of Maharashtra on June 7.
Union Agriculture Secretary T Nanda Kumar will hold discussions with Agriculture Secretaries of states like Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh on how to deal with the situation that could send the economy into a downward spiral.
–PTI