Worsening Drought Conditions Affect Relay Cropping in Central India

Authors

J. L. Chaudhary, Indira Gandhi Agricultural University, Raipur, India
A. S. R. A. S. Sastri, Indira Gandhi Agricultural University, Raipur, India
D. Naidu, Indira Gandhi Agricultural University, Raipur, India
S. K. Srivastava, Indira Gandhi Agricultural University, Raipur, India

Date of this Version

June 1995

Comments

Published in Drought Network News June 1995. Published by the International Drought Information Center and the National Drought Mitigation Center, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska – Lincoln.

Abstract

In the Chhattisgarh region of central India (Figure 1), rice is grown on about 3.7 million ha, of which 80% is under rainfed conditions. The rice crop is grown mostly under the broadcast biasi system of cultivation (see Drought Network News, Vol. 5, No. 3 [October 1993], pp. 6–7). The rainy season is the southwest monsoon (June–September) season. Farmers grow traditional local tall varieties of rice, which flower in mid-October and mature by mid- November.