But the states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka suffered yet another year of drought.
New Mexico is embarking on its third straight year of drought, water supplies have dipped to record lows, farmers and ranchers are struggling, and there are now signs of feral swine in 22 of the state's 33 counties.
However, it will take a second or third year of bad drought for food prices to really have a persistent impact.
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And with the Colorado River basin entering its eighth year of sustained drought, it doesn't look like the reservoir will be filling up again soon.
He expected 2006 to be a tough year for Nissan because of a new product drought in the first half of the year.
If the Boston Red Sox suffered through the Curse of the Bambino--an 86-year championship drought attributed to their sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees--call the Mets' whammy the Curse of the Straw Man.
Nearly a quarter of India was hit by drought last year due to the late arrival of monsoon rains.
Last year, thousands of elms died of drought, and on the nutrients from their carcasses a bumper crop of morels has been creeping forth, like wrinkled zombie armies.
The crisis was set in motion last year with a lack of rains and drought, and it has grown worse because the drought has continued, UNICEF officials say.
The USDA's revisions reflect the impact of dry weather in South America and floods in Australia, which have compounded supply constraints that first started to emerge in the middle of last year, when a drought in Russia ravaged that country's wheat fields.
Swaths of Texas and the western U.S. have faced drought conditions for much of the year, including parts of Colorado where wildfires continue to burn.
This time last year much of England was suffering a severe drought with seven water companies in the south east enforcing hosepipe bans and restrictions.
But even with those disclaimers in mind, it's fair to say that the Red Bulls' season-opening 3-3 draw at Portland last Sunday underlined a troubling trend that could prove fatal to this club's hopes of ending a 17-year championship drought.
The widespread blazes are more typical of the wildfires that break out in the grasslands of the Midwest and Great Plains this time of year, said Mark Svoboda, a climatologist at the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The Environment Agency will carry out a further assessment on the likelihood of a continuing drought early next year.
Might not sound important, until you realize that our farm production is critically dependent upon stable weather patterns, this year promises to be one of the worst for drought in many areas since the dust bowl days from the Depression.
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For eight of them, crop yields the year after the drought did not fully rebound.
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Because there is a drought this year, that is proof of a trend?
The wave of IPOs comes after a two-year drought for real-estate offerings in Hong Kong, as developers held on to their assets while prices soared.
The ethanol industry recently produced roughly 35 million metric tons of DDG a year, though the current Midwest drought is driving up corn prices and cutting ethanol production.
Although Boston Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs helped deliver the Stanley Cup to the team in 2011 after a 39-year drought, he spent the second half of 2012 under fire thanks to his significant role in the most recent NHL lockout.
Afghanistan has suffered 20 years of war, and this year has brought the worst drought in decades.
Floods and drought in the north of the country this year have left some 500, 000 people hungry.
At least this year's drought is unlikely to have the disastrous impact of the one in the mid-1980s that killed nearly 1m Ethiopians.
Wheat prices rose 25% last week to hit two-year highs as drought and fires have devastated crops in parts of Russia, and led to the government banning the export of grain including wheat, barley, rye and maize.
The United States is on course to have it hottest year on record, as withering drought spreads across two-thirds of the country.
Arizona's 11-year drought is also a chief culprit: sinuses need a bit of humidity.
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The humanitarian effort has been hampered by the three-year drought which, quite apart from war, has devastated much of the country, particularly the south.
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Concerns about quality control also apply: Weather patterns affect crops differently year to year, and major events like drought or flooding can cause the prices of raw materials to spike.
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