Gujarat has experienced drought for consecutive years because of ____________________.

Subsiding air masses

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Successive monsoon failure

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Change in the direction of trade winds

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Western disturbances

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Solution

The correct option is D Successive monsoon failure
Kutch, as well as Saurashtra, remains dependent on rain. And rainfall has been so scanty since 2017 that Gujarat is in the throes of a drought. Though 2018 was declared the worst monsoon season since 1901, Gujarat insisted it was not drought-hit until three months after the rainy season had passed.

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