New Delhi: India has drawn up contingency plans for more than 300 districts which are vulnerable to a weak monsoon as it steps up preparations for the summer-sown season to minimise the impact on crops, its farm minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Tuesday.
The monsoon has so far brought rains about 43% below average, and the weather office has forecast weak rains through the week ending July 2, Chouhan told reporters after chairing a meeting with state farm ministers, officials and scientists.
