Report on drought condition to be submitted in a week

The four-member Central team, which is on visit to the district to assess the drought situation, will submit its report to the Goverment within one week.
The team visited Kunnathur and nearby areas in Annur Taluk, where they inspected the loss of crops includig, coconut, turmeric, sugarcane, banana and grains, along with the senior district officials, an official release said today.
The team was briefed about the acute shortage of water due to failure of both monsoons, which was happening after a gap of 140 years, it said.
Thought the district has received 820.6 MM rains last year, it was only 223 mm, a deficit of 67.5 per cent this year.

North East monsoon was totally failure and as against 333.3 MM last year, only 109.1 mm was received so far this year.
The district officials displayed photographs of loss of crops, dry ponds, water bodies and lakes across the district, it said.