Bangalore/Mangalore: The onset of late and weak South-West monsoon has become the matter of worry for the farmers where the state has recorded 41 percent of deficit rainfall last month.
Some scientists are seeing the symptoms of El Nino, in which the temperature increases on the sea surface, which results irregularity in rainfall. Last time, El-Nino was occurred in the year 2009, when rains were meager and monsoon ended up in a drought.
This year, South-West monsoon has been weak across the state. Speaking to the News Karnataka, director of Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) in Bangalore, B Puttana said: “The El Nino effect is moderate; and the heat wave will prevail in the northern hemisphere owing to the Sun’s position towards that way.”
Because of this solar radiation is also increasing, he added.
North and coastal Karnataka have received scanty rainfall as compared to the south Karnataka.
The IMD is expecting a good rainfall from tomorrow onwards in the north Karnataka, whereas this month is expected to receive a good amount of rainfall as well as the interior parts of the state.
This weekend, IMD predicts that rain and thunder-showers would occur at many places over coastal Karnataka; at a fewer places over south interior Karnataka and at isolated places over north interior Karnataka.
The South-West monsoon is gradually advancing its performance into some parts of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, entire Delhi, while it’s feeble in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
Vegetable prices are likely to rise:
The side-effects of deficient monsoon will hit the kitchen soon and prices of the vegetables will apparently go up.
“The production of tomato and potato will be affected, and their prices are likely to shoot up this time owing to the scanty rainfall in the Hassan, Puttur, Chickmagalur regions, as these are the key regions for the production of tomato and potato,” Yogesh HR, deputy director of Horticulture, Mangalore, stated to the News Karnataka.
Moreover, crop yields will be affected and he added that it will be early to say right now that which crop will be affected.
On Arecanut, he added that at this moment scanty rainfall is the not the reason for the existing prices of arecanut.
