Climate Change Series Just one year after the unprecedented floods in India’s desert state of Rajasthan in 2006, weeds began to take hold in the once-fertile land in Kavas village. Perma Ram picks up a chunk of the weed-choked soil. “Once this weed takes root, we cannot grow any other crop,” he says, standing barefoot on the cracked earth. “Before the rainfall was normal. Now it rains on one side but not the other.”
Farmers such as Mr Ram may not know the scientific details of climate change. But they know that weather patterns in India are shifting. There have been greater incidences of intense rains and floods, droughts and other unusual weather in recent years.
