The effects of El Nino, which occurs due to the warming of the Pacific Ocean waters, on wind power generation in India could lead to lower output amid soaring summer temperatures, driving up electricity demand
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
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast the June-September south-west monsoon to be normal, at 96% of the long period or 50-year average (LPA)