Drought simply means a long period of dry weather due to absence of rainfall.
Causes:
- absence of rainfall
- absence of cloud cover
- high rate of evapo-transpiration
Effects:
- leads to loss of livestock
- poor growth in plants and brings about surface dry up of rivers and streams.
Control:
- Irrigation
- planting of cover crops
- averting over-grazing.
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