A farmer removes dried plants from his parched paddy field at Narimanpura village, on the outskirts of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad July 30, 2012. Rice is the main summer-sown crop in the country and sowing is over in 14.46 million hectares compared to 16.13 million hectares a year earlier. REUTERS/Amit Dave
MHASWAD, India (Reuters) - Armed with the latest monsoon rainfall data, weather experts finally conceded this month that India is facing a drought, confirming what millions of livestock farmers around the country had known for weeks.
For over three months, even state agencies have been providing free fodder to those most vulnerable to a shortfall in India's annual monsoon -- farmers who eke a living out of small landholdings and the milk provided by cattle.
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