Revamping crop insurance and farm trade, and building resilience with short-duration substitutes for the types of grain India farmers usually produce will go a long way in minimising the effects of an unreliable monsoon and increasingly erratic weather patterns
Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana are considered leading wheat producing states, while chana is majorly grown in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Rajasthan.
In early March, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a high-level meeting with the officials of National Disaster Management Authority and secretaries from the various government departments, including health and family welfare, agriculture and farmer welfare and earth sciences, to assess the general preparedness of concerned departments for the upcoming summer months in the country.
The raids were conducted at the premises belonging to the accused persons in Rup Nagar, Sangrur, Morinda, Bassi Pathana, Fatehgarh Sahib, Mohali, Gurdaspur, Barnala, Mansa, Bathinda, Sunam, Budlada, Mohali (all in Punjab), Ambala, Gurugram (in Haryana), Kolar, Chikkabalapur (in Karnataka), Chennai, New Delhi, and Chandigarh.