what makes western odisha, rayalseema, telengana of Andhra Pardesh, jharkhand drought prone areas
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Droughts are one of the most widespread disasters faced by India, and affect more than 70% of the cultivable land in the world's largest agrarian (depending on agriculture) economy.
Drought conditions develop over a period of time, and without immediately noticeable changes to our environment. That is the reason droughts are called slow onset disasters.
Major parts of the states of Rajasthan and Gujarat in the western belt of India face frequent droughts because of weak monsoons and an increasingly polluted environment.
Other drought-prone areas are Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, western Orissa, central Maharashtra, the Rayalaseema and Telangana areas of Andhra Pradesh, the interiors of Karnataka, and parts of Tamil Nadu. Even states like Punjab, Haryana, Bihar, and Uttar Pradesh experience droughts due to insufficient rains in some areas.
In all, 191 of India's 543 districts are severely drought-prone.
Because rains affect farms and forests the most, people who are most severely and immediately affected by droughts are those who depend entirely on agriculture and animal husbandry for a living, or tribal people who live on food from forests.
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