Sri Lanka, July 7 -- "When Indian Ocean Dipole becomes positive, what's expected is that the western parts of the Indian Ocean, from Sri Lanka will experience very heavy convection type rainfall especially during October and November. In 2023 there was a nearly strong El Nino where the temperature increased to about 2 degrees Celsius. We had a massive rainfall during October/November due to the IOD becoming positive"

- Buddhi Marambe, Senior Prof. in Crop Science Peradeniya University

"Food imports from other countries such as India would be affected and we discussed how we could promote home gardening concepts and drip irrigation systems. Many vulnerable groups would emerge as a result of an El Nino and we need to be prepared with sol...