Drought example sentences

Drought affects the life of pastoralists everywhere.Drought poses a threat to rain-fed farming areas, where farmers do not use irrigation for crop production and depend only on rain.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.They were cut off from the best grazing lands and forced to live within a semi-arid tract prone to frequent droughts.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.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.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.What had gone wrong? Why these duststorms? In part they came because the early 1930s were years of persistent drought.Men and women moved in search of livelihood, as also to escape from natural disasters like floods or droughts.कभी लोग काम की तलाश में तो कभी प्राकृतिक आपदाओं के कारण एक स्थान से दूसरे स्थान जाया करते थे|Scientists have developed some crop varieties which can tolerate drought conditions.Droughts occur because of scarcity or irregular distribution of rains.Countries located in climatic zones most susceptible to droughts face great problems of water scarcity.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.If the rainfall is scanty in the winter months from June till August, drought may occur.Times of drought become times of crises, when cattle die in large numbers.