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Marathwada Drought Situation
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Changing crop types and water scarcity: The case of Marathwada
This study titled 'Exploring the association between changing crop types and water scarcity: A case study over West-Central India' published in Climate attempts to shed light and make connections between climatic and agricultural causes that lead to increase in severity of droughts over Marathwada such as the summer monsoon rainfall cycle ...
Attribution of the 2015 drought in Marathwada, India from a
Fig. 2 shows the schematic of the methodology adopted in this study for attributing the observed hot and dry conditions that characterized the 2015 drought event in Marathwada, hereafter called as the 2015 hot and dry event.Firstly, an event definition that reflects the extremity of the impacts in the region is arrived at, based on insights available for the region in general, and specific to ...
Exploring the Association between Changing Crop Types and Water ...
In recent years, semi-arid regions of India, especially Marathwada, have been continuously under the grip of drought. Increasing water scarcity and depleting ground water levels have accentuated the agrarian crisis with an increased number of farmers committing suicide in this region. To understand this issue, the present paper deals with the roots of the drought severities concerning the ...
PDF Water Scarcity: A Case Study over West-Central India
Although 2014-15 was a brutal drought year in Marathwada, the cultivated area was almost 100% of the total normal [22]. Kulkarni et al. [8] studied that the aftermath of the water crises of the 2014-15 drought was harsher than the calamitous drought of the year 1972 over Marathwada. They also reported an increase in the total area growing ...
PDF Fighting Drought and Improving Food Security in Maharashtra: A Women
2.1 Issues in Marathwada Drought: According to a study by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology and the Indian Institute of Science, between 1870 and 2015 the region faced 22 droughts, of which there were five instances of two consecutive droughts, the most recent of which were in 2014-15 and 2015-16. Marathwada had a rain deficit of
Drought vulnerability of Marathwada region, India: A spatial analysis
As a case study, the drought-affected and groundwater-depleted Purulia district in West Bengal, India, which is a part of the Chotanagpur plateau, was selected.
PDF Moving from Crisis Management to Risk Assessment for Drought
2. Study Area- Latur district, Marathwada The Marathwada region of Maharashtra has been confronting drought since decades consisting of eight districts, i.e., Aurangabad, Beed, Osmanabad, Latur, Jalna, Parbhani, Hingoli, and Nanded. The Marathwada region is first analysed to understand drought severity using Standardized Precipitation Index ...
Drought Frequency Assessment and Implications of Climate ...
The aim of this study is to study the drought in Maharashtra, India which accounts for 15% of GDP. In Marathwada, north Maharashtra and western Vidarbha regions, water scarcity affects nearly 60% of the state. Data on soil moisture, precipitation and temperature were used to assess drought.
India: Women lead with climate-smart farming in Marathwada
Monsoon rainfall, which is the mainstay of crops in Marathwada and adjoining Vidarbha regions of Maharashtra, has become increasingly erratic and scant, partly due to climate change. Studies have found that most of Marathwada is affected by frequent moderate or severe droughts, while some parts have seen extreme drought conditions.
[PDF] Drought vulnerability of Marathwada region, India: A spatial
The magnitude and frequency of severe and extreme drought events continue to grow, instigating a grave risk to human wellbeing. Marathwada region of India is one of the most chronically drought affected region of India. The sequential drought events between the years 2012 to 2016 acutely impacted the natural as well as socio-economic resources of the region. This study attempts to assess the ...
Rainfall distribution and trends over the semi-arid Marathwada region
The study area is the semi-arid Marathwada region of Maharashtra in India ... and time series trend analysis of rainfall and temperature in north-central Ethiopia: a case study in Woleka sub-basin. Wea Climate Extr 19:29-41 ... Monsoon variability, the 2015 Marathwada drought and rainfed agriculture. Curr Sci 111(7):1182-1193. Article ...
PDF Issues and Challenges Before Indian Agricultural in Drought Prone Areas
Marathwada. Drought has hit Marathwada for two years in a row. This has affected the agricultural, industrial and domestic sectors at the regional level and the water supply at the city level. This affected the agricultural sector in Latur district. The case of Latur district has been presented in this study
Drought vulnerability assessment across Vidarbha region, Maharashtra
The study gives an admonition to the region taking a lesson from the Marathwada drought crisis. Marathwada region in Maharashtra is having analogous climatological conditions with Western Vidarbha, and a population of nineteen million inhabited of which 75% of them are in rural areas with their primary income source as agriculture. Marathwada ...
Spatio-Temporal Drought Assessment of Marathwada Region
spatial pattern of SPI values in drou ght years 1972, 20 00. and 2014 in the growing crop season i.e. June to. September, s hows that a mong the thre e drought yea r, the. year 1972 extremely dry ...
Mapping of groundwater potential zones in a drought prone Marathwada
Very few studies were conducted on GWPZ in the Marathwada region at district level [45, 46]. Therefore, the objectives of the present research are to identify GWPZ at regional scale using probabilistic models of FR and SI in GIS software and delineate GWPZ in a hard-rock and semi-arid region Marathwada Region of Maharashtra. 2. Study area
Marathwada drought man-made, not caused by climate change: Study
The analysis showed that Marathwada is visited by a drought nearly once in six to seven years on an average. While it witnessed 22 such instances between 1871 and 2015, back-to-back droughts ...
Drought conditions force Marathwada farmers to migrate for work
by Supriya Vohra on 20 December 2022. Every year, during the sugarcane harvest season, thousands of workers from Maharashtra's drought prone region, migrate within the state to work as sugarcane cutters. They work for low wages and in poor working conditions. The workers, who own small parcels of land in their own villages, say that if they ...
PDF Impact of the 2015 Drought on Rural Livelihood
village for a case study in the Latur district of Maharashtra in 2015. Latur was one of the most severe drought-affected districts among Maharashtra's Marathwada region. GovindKatalakute et al. (2016) examined the impact of drought agriculture and social and economic activities of farmer communities in Maharashtra, India, from2011 to 2015.
Marathwada Water Crisis
Another factor responsible for the crisis is the diversion of water to the industries and sugar factories. Sugar factories in Marathwada were operational despite the mounting water crisis. To produce 1 kg of sugar, about 2,000 litres of water are required. There was also no significant effort was made by the State to curtail the water supply to ...
Drought in Marathwada: Causes, Consequences and Remedies
A drought condition in any region including Marathwada region occurs when there is less than 50 per cent of average rainfall for consecutive periods. The region is under the influence of southwest monsoon. When southwest monsoon reaches in western coast in the month of June, massive rainfall occurs in the western coast of Maharashtra (2,500 mm ...
Droughts in Maharashtra: Lack of management or vagaries of climate
Severe droughts (Source: Wikimedia Commons) Recent news has been flooded with reports of the severe drought situation in the Marathwada and Vidarbha regions of Maharashtra. Even more shocking are the reports of large-scale suicides by farmers due to crop losses. Although the government has announced a relief package for drought-affected areas ...
PDF Participatory Approach of Water Resource Management: A Case Study of
drought areas, creating tanker-free villages, and ample water for irrigation, drinking and animals, improving ... The term Marathwada means "the house of Maratha people". It includes the following districts: Aurangabad, Jalna, Beed, Osmanabad, Nanded, Latur, Parbhani, and ... Study has also explored about how de-siltation of the tanks and ...
Devastating drought in India's Marathwada
An estimated 330 million people in India are suffering through debilitating drought with the Marathwada region particularly hard hit. Besieged by three straight years of drought, a heatwave is now ...
Detection and Attribution of Meteorological Drought to ...
It is not clear to what extent anthropogenic activities increase meteorological drought based on regional-scale observations. This study provides a detection and attribution (D&A) analysis of external forcing on meteorological drought using the standard precipitation index for a 12-month time scale (SPI-12) on a regional scale, particularly in the Ajichay basin, from 1972 to 2020, based on ...
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This study titled 'Exploring the association between changing crop types and water scarcity: A case study over West-Central India' published in Climate attempts to shed light and make connections between climatic and agricultural causes that lead to increase in severity of droughts over Marathwada such as the summer monsoon rainfall cycle ...
Fig. 2 shows the schematic of the methodology adopted in this study for attributing the observed hot and dry conditions that characterized the 2015 drought event in Marathwada, hereafter called as the 2015 hot and dry event.Firstly, an event definition that reflects the extremity of the impacts in the region is arrived at, based on insights available for the region in general, and specific to ...
In recent years, semi-arid regions of India, especially Marathwada, have been continuously under the grip of drought. Increasing water scarcity and depleting ground water levels have accentuated the agrarian crisis with an increased number of farmers committing suicide in this region. To understand this issue, the present paper deals with the roots of the drought severities concerning the ...
Although 2014-15 was a brutal drought year in Marathwada, the cultivated area was almost 100% of the total normal [22]. Kulkarni et al. [8] studied that the aftermath of the water crises of the 2014-15 drought was harsher than the calamitous drought of the year 1972 over Marathwada. They also reported an increase in the total area growing ...
2.1 Issues in Marathwada Drought: According to a study by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology and the Indian Institute of Science, between 1870 and 2015 the region faced 22 droughts, of which there were five instances of two consecutive droughts, the most recent of which were in 2014-15 and 2015-16. Marathwada had a rain deficit of
As a case study, the drought-affected and groundwater-depleted Purulia district in West Bengal, India, which is a part of the Chotanagpur plateau, was selected.
2. Study Area- Latur district, Marathwada The Marathwada region of Maharashtra has been confronting drought since decades consisting of eight districts, i.e., Aurangabad, Beed, Osmanabad, Latur, Jalna, Parbhani, Hingoli, and Nanded. The Marathwada region is first analysed to understand drought severity using Standardized Precipitation Index ...
The aim of this study is to study the drought in Maharashtra, India which accounts for 15% of GDP. In Marathwada, north Maharashtra and western Vidarbha regions, water scarcity affects nearly 60% of the state. Data on soil moisture, precipitation and temperature were used to assess drought.
Monsoon rainfall, which is the mainstay of crops in Marathwada and adjoining Vidarbha regions of Maharashtra, has become increasingly erratic and scant, partly due to climate change. Studies have found that most of Marathwada is affected by frequent moderate or severe droughts, while some parts have seen extreme drought conditions.
The magnitude and frequency of severe and extreme drought events continue to grow, instigating a grave risk to human wellbeing. Marathwada region of India is one of the most chronically drought affected region of India. The sequential drought events between the years 2012 to 2016 acutely impacted the natural as well as socio-economic resources of the region. This study attempts to assess the ...
The study area is the semi-arid Marathwada region of Maharashtra in India ... and time series trend analysis of rainfall and temperature in north-central Ethiopia: a case study in Woleka sub-basin. Wea Climate Extr 19:29-41 ... Monsoon variability, the 2015 Marathwada drought and rainfed agriculture. Curr Sci 111(7):1182-1193. Article ...
Marathwada. Drought has hit Marathwada for two years in a row. This has affected the agricultural, industrial and domestic sectors at the regional level and the water supply at the city level. This affected the agricultural sector in Latur district. The case of Latur district has been presented in this study
The study gives an admonition to the region taking a lesson from the Marathwada drought crisis. Marathwada region in Maharashtra is having analogous climatological conditions with Western Vidarbha, and a population of nineteen million inhabited of which 75% of them are in rural areas with their primary income source as agriculture. Marathwada ...
spatial pattern of SPI values in drou ght years 1972, 20 00. and 2014 in the growing crop season i.e. June to. September, s hows that a mong the thre e drought yea r, the. year 1972 extremely dry ...
Very few studies were conducted on GWPZ in the Marathwada region at district level [45, 46]. Therefore, the objectives of the present research are to identify GWPZ at regional scale using probabilistic models of FR and SI in GIS software and delineate GWPZ in a hard-rock and semi-arid region Marathwada Region of Maharashtra. 2. Study area
The analysis showed that Marathwada is visited by a drought nearly once in six to seven years on an average. While it witnessed 22 such instances between 1871 and 2015, back-to-back droughts ...
by Supriya Vohra on 20 December 2022. Every year, during the sugarcane harvest season, thousands of workers from Maharashtra's drought prone region, migrate within the state to work as sugarcane cutters. They work for low wages and in poor working conditions. The workers, who own small parcels of land in their own villages, say that if they ...
village for a case study in the Latur district of Maharashtra in 2015. Latur was one of the most severe drought-affected districts among Maharashtra's Marathwada region. GovindKatalakute et al. (2016) examined the impact of drought agriculture and social and economic activities of farmer communities in Maharashtra, India, from2011 to 2015.
Another factor responsible for the crisis is the diversion of water to the industries and sugar factories. Sugar factories in Marathwada were operational despite the mounting water crisis. To produce 1 kg of sugar, about 2,000 litres of water are required. There was also no significant effort was made by the State to curtail the water supply to ...
A drought condition in any region including Marathwada region occurs when there is less than 50 per cent of average rainfall for consecutive periods. The region is under the influence of southwest monsoon. When southwest monsoon reaches in western coast in the month of June, massive rainfall occurs in the western coast of Maharashtra (2,500 mm ...
Severe droughts (Source: Wikimedia Commons) Recent news has been flooded with reports of the severe drought situation in the Marathwada and Vidarbha regions of Maharashtra. Even more shocking are the reports of large-scale suicides by farmers due to crop losses. Although the government has announced a relief package for drought-affected areas ...
drought areas, creating tanker-free villages, and ample water for irrigation, drinking and animals, improving ... The term Marathwada means "the house of Maratha people". It includes the following districts: Aurangabad, Jalna, Beed, Osmanabad, Nanded, Latur, Parbhani, and ... Study has also explored about how de-siltation of the tanks and ...
An estimated 330 million people in India are suffering through debilitating drought with the Marathwada region particularly hard hit. Besieged by three straight years of drought, a heatwave is now ...
It is not clear to what extent anthropogenic activities increase meteorological drought based on regional-scale observations. This study provides a detection and attribution (D&A) analysis of external forcing on meteorological drought using the standard precipitation index for a 12-month time scale (SPI-12) on a regional scale, particularly in the Ajichay basin, from 1972 to 2020, based on ...