Erratic Monsoons: How Indian Farmers Can Adapt to a Changing Climate

The rains no longer arrive on schedule. Here are five practical, low-cost ways to protect your yield this season — and how to turn a 3-day forecast into a sowing and spraying decision.

Farmers across India keep telling us the same thing: the rains do not come when they used to. Onset is late or comes in two false starts. Then a month of dry heat. Then three days of downpour that flattens a standing crop. The long-term averages on paper look almost normal — but a farm is not run on averages. It is run on the next ten days. …