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It has left the shorter winter literally the two rituals of Joel in the cold.

For 50 years, Ludhiana has been in Ludhiana in the city of Ludhiana in the city of Ludhiana, India, India, and has made jackets, blouses and blouses. But with the beginning of the summer early this year, the company staring at the washing season and having to change the gears.

“We had to start making shirts instead of blouses, as winter became shorter with the passage of every year. Our sales decreased to half in the past five years and another 10 % decreased during this season,” Joel told the BBC. “The only last exception to this was Covid, when temperatures decreased dramatically.”

Throughout India, the cold weather exceeds a hasty decline, fears accumulate on farms and factories, with crop patterns and business plans.

Data from the Indian Meteorological Department showed that last month was the most important February in India in 125 years. The average weekly temperature was the minimum level of 1-3C in many parts of the country.

It is possible that the temperatures of the normal maximum and heat waves will last for most of the country between March and May.

For small business owners such as Goel, such a wrong weather means more than just slowing sales. His entire business model, practicing and perfect for decades, had to change.

Goel provides clothes to multi -brand ports throughout India. He says that they no longer pay him upon delivery, instead, the “sale or return” form adopts as shipments that have not been sold to the company are returned, which transmits the risks to the manufacturer fully.

He also had to provide greater discounts and incentives to his customers this year.

“The adult retailers did not pick up the goods despite the confirmed requests,” says Joel, adding that some small companies in his city had to close the store as a result.

About 1,200 miles in the city of Devagad on the western coast of India, the heat caused chaos to the beloved Mango Alfonso orchards in India.

“This year will be about 30 % of the natural return,” said Vidyadhar Joshi, a farmer with 1500 trees.

Alfonso Al -Helou, gentle and aromatic is a valuable export from the region, but it is produced in the regions of Rajad, Sindouj and Ratnagiri, where diversity is mostly sowed, less, according to Jochi.

“We might lose this year,” says Gochi.

According to him, many other farmers in the region were sending workers, who come from Nepal to work in orchards, and return to the homeland because there was not enough to do it.

The burning heat also threatens winter nutrients such as wheat, chickpeas and misery.

While the country’s Minister of Agriculture rejected concerns about poor revenues and expected that India will have an abundant wheat harvest this year, independent experts are less hopeful.

Abhishek Jain of the Research Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) says that the heat waves in 2022 reduced the revenues by 15-25 % and “similar trends can be affiliated this year.”

India – the second largest wheat producer in the world – will have to rely on expensive imports in the event of such disorders. The prolonged ban on exports, announced in 2022, may continue for a longer period.

Economists are also anxious about the effect of high temperatures on water availability.

The tank levels in northern India have already decreased to 28 % of the capacity, a decrease from 37 % last year, according to CEEW. This can affect the yield of fruits, vegetables and dairy, which has already seen a decrease in milk production by up to 15 % throughout the country.

“These things have the ability to push inflation to the top and reflect the 4 % goal that the central bank is talking about,” says Madan Sabnafis, the chief economist at Barouda Bank.

Food prices in India recently started softening after its rise for several months, which led to price cuts after a long stop.

The gross domestic product was also supported in the third largest economy in Asia by recently accelerating rural consumption after it reached the lowest level in seven quarters last year. Any setback can affect this recovery that the farm -led recovery over the total growth, at a time when urban families were cut off and the private investment was not captured.

Intellectual cabinets such as CEEW say a set of urgent measures to alleviate the effect of frequent heat waves must be considered, including better to predict infrastructure, agriculture insurance and the development of crops with climate models to reduce risks and improve yield.

As an agricultural country in the first place, India is especially vulnerable to climate change.

CEEW estimates that three out of every four Indian areas are “hot points for the extremist event” and 40 % show the so-called “direction of swap”-which means that traditional flooding areas are witnessing frequent and intense dry dryness and vice versa.

The country is expected to lose about 5.8 % of daily working hours due to heat stress by 2030, according to one estimates. The climate transparency, the invitation group, has linked the possible income loss in India through services, manufacturing, agriculture and construction from reducing the work capacity due to the intense heat at $ 159 billion in 2021 or 5.4 % of GDP.

Without an urgent procedure, India risks a future as the heat waves threaten both lives and economic stability.

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