What is the economic and environmental impacts of monsoons?
If the monsoons do not arrive in India, the nation mourns for the entire year; if the monsoon is too heavy, floods and crop loss mark the following year. Just as the success or failure of agriculture is dependent upon the monsoons, the culture of South Asia is dependent upon the rains. Economic Impact: 1. Good monsoon – good harvests, bad monsoon (drought or heavy rain induced flood) – bad harvest, shortage of agricultural produce, their price rise, loss of income for farmers, loss of property, crops, livestock due to heavy rains flooding, spread of diseases like cholera. 2. Good monsoon – good agricultural income – good demand for consumer products produced by industries, bad monsoon – opposite effects 3. Good monsoon – Good harvest – good supply of agricultural raw materials to industry 4. Good monsoon – augmentation of water supply for drinking and irrigation. Environmental impacts: 1. Spread of diseases like cholera due to heavy rainfall induced floods 2. Soil fertility erosion due
