How do monsoons affect the farmers?
a. during a monsoon, the sun shines brightly, causing the rice fields to grow in abundance.
b. monsoons are fierce, torrential rains that can wash their rice away.
c. farmers love the monsoons and perform rain dances to make them occur. d. monsoons have no effect on the farmers of india.

The correct answer is C. Farmers love the monsoons and perform rain dances to make them occur.

The summer monsoon produces eighty percent of the total rainfall in the affected areas. The return of the monsoon has an uneven rhythm since, from one year to the next, the rains have a different duration and intensity. The monsoon is beneficial, since it waters the land, and at the same time harmful, when it floods the villages. It is irregular and unpredictable.

The eternal return of the monsoons is a permanent surprise: will it be early or late, abundant or weak, regular or brutal? Thus, agriculture in India, which accounts for twenty-five percent of the gross national product and seventy percent of employment, depends on the monsoon. Crops such as cotton or rice have a high demand for water. A weak monsoon, the delay of the same or prolonged interruptions turn into a dramatic turn for hundreds of millions of Indians, whose economic life depends completely on the contribution of these monsoon rains. During the 1990s, the drought caused by a change in the classic pattern of the monsoon season caused significant humanitarian and financial damage.

In their prayers, a nation of farmers asks for a good monsoon, without which the country will plunge into famine.

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