The Hindu Business Line

More than five decades after India launched the Green Revolution, its war on hunger is far from won. The impetus for the Green Revolution came from harvest failures and famine conditions in the mid-1960s. But its main goal was to ensure India’s national food security, more precisely its self-reliance in foodgrain production.

The Financial Express

The University of Minnesota’s Institute on Environment says the production of barley, cassava, maize, oil palm, rapeseed, rice, sorghum, soybean, sugarcane, and wheat has fallen globally due to climate change. South Asia, along with Europe, and North and Central America, are the worst-affected. In India, where food security is already a concern, rice and wheat production fell by 2.1% and 0.7%, respectively, between 1978 and 2008 due to climate change.

Hindustan Times 

Around 43% of the country is staring at a drought, government reports released in the past week show. By June 15, it would increase to 51%, if the monsoon isn’t sufficient. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said that India received 99 mm of pre-monsoon rain between March 1 and May 31 — a deficiency of 25%. “This has been the second driest pre-monsoon season in the last 65 years,” Skymet Weather reported. In 2012, the deficiency was 31% with 90.5mm pre-monsoon rains.