the 1980s, all the six droughts faced by India were in El Niño years but not all El Niño years led to drought situations …Weather experts around the world are foreseeing a strong El Niño in 2014. In India, these developments are feared to … timing of El Niño developments in a year and its relation with monsoon rains. We construct an India specific El Niño (ISEL …

and profitability) of at least these two crops needs to be studied thoroughly to see how best higher productivity and … profitability can be achieved with lesser amounts of irrigation water. This is what is attempted in this paper. The study shows that …

basins, where water deficit during drought events is partially covered by illegal abstractions, mostly from aquifers, which …-based drought insurance systems have the potential to introduce the necessary incentives to reduce overexploitation during drought … events and remove the high costs of the drought indemnity paid by the government. This paper develops a methodology to obtain …