Drought example sentences

In just two years of severe drought, 1933 and 1934, over half the cattle in the Maasai Reserve died.Biotic and abiotic resistance: Crops production can go down due to biotic (diseases, insects and nematodes) and abiotic (drought, salinity, water logging, heat, cold and frost) stresses under different situations.If the rainfall is scanty in the winter months from June till August, drought may occur.What had gone wrong? Why these duststorms? In part they came because the early 1930s were years of persistent drought.Times of drought become times of crises, when cattle die in large numbers.This affected their lives in times of drought and even reshaped their social relationships.As the area of grazing lands shrank, the adverse effect of the droughts increased in intensity.Drought poses a threat to rain-fed farming areas, where farmers do not use irrigation for crop production and depend only on rain.Provision for crop insurance against drought, flood, cyclone, fire and disease, establishment of Grameen banks, cooperative societies and banks for providing loan facilities to the farmers at lower rates of interest were some important steps in this direction.Natural disasters, such as floods, droughts, landslides, quakes on the earth or under the ocean, can affect people's emotions to such an extent that they experience deep depression and sorrow, a sense of complete helplessness and lack of control over their lives.Drought affects the life of pastoralists everywhere.In Gujarat, the Sabarmati-basin farmers were agitated and almost caused a riot over the higher priority given to water supply in urban areas, particularly during droughts.The poorest section of the society might be food insecure most of the times while persons above the poverty line might also be food insecure when the country faces a national disaster/calamity like earthquake, drought, flood, tsunami, widespread failure of crops causing famine, etc.Watershed management not only increases the production and income of the watershed community, but also mitigates droughts and floods and increases the life of the downstream dam and reservoirs.The stock eased after 2002 03 due to relief opertations undertaken by the goverment as the year was declared as drought year due to failure of monsoon.