Drought is a normal, recurrent climatic feature that occurs in virtually every climatic zone around the world, causing billions of dollars in loss annually for the farming community. Crops are selected across the country to normal rainfall conditions. If any deviation in normal rainfall towards deficit, it will adversely affect the crop growth, development and production under rainfed conditions. The early break in monsoon, i.e. early season drought is the one which adversely affect the transplanting area of rice while the monsoon failure during July and August, i.e. intermittent drought is...

The paddy-fish farming provides a sustainable alternative tool to rice monoculture. The switch from paddy monoculture to paddy-fish farming is a shift to production of a more balanced diet. In addition, it was secondary farm product in terms of economic return, increase in income and generating the employment potential to the rural masses. The less use of fertilizer and increase in the amount of organic fertilizer through fish excreta and increase in photosynthesis due to movement of fishes in paddy-field causes the aeration of water hence increased the dissolve oxygen, congenial to increase...