DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA, (INDIA)

Drought is one of the natural disasters that weaken the sustainable development of people and their resources. Shortage of rainfall coupled with its erratic distribution during rainy season causes severe water deficit conditions resulting in various intensities of droughts. Generally 90 % of the annual rainfall in India falls in the months of June to September due to South West monsoon. Long breaks in the monsoon are abrupt resets of its disastrous to crops which produces droughts followed by famine in the district. In the present study based on the monsoon rainfall for 48 years (1961-2008) an attempt has been made to quantify the drought for all ten talukas of Gulbarga district. South West monsoon rainfall deficit has been taken as prime factor in the drought analysis. The RS and GIS tools are used for the analysis. The results of the present study indicated that the areas considered fall under semi-arid region. Within the analyzed time frame 1972 is found to be the worst drought in Gulbarga district