Monsoon covers two-third of India earlier than usual, to accelerate crop sowing
Monsoon covers two-third of India earlier than usual, to accelerate crop sowing"
- Select a language for the TTS:
- UK English Female
- UK English Male
- US English Female
- US English Male
- Australian Female
- Australian Male
- Language selected: (auto detect) - EN
Play all audios:
MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s annual monsoon rains have covered two-third of the country, nearly a fortnight ahead of the normal schedule, a weather department official said on Monday, adding
that conditions are favourable for further advancement into the north-western parts this week.
The early arrival of monsoon rains in central and northern India will help farmers accelerate sowing of summer-sown crops such as paddy rice, cotton, soybean and pulses, and may boost crop
yields too.
“Monsoon has already covered some parts of Punjab. Usually, it enters Punjab in the last week of June,” said an official at the India Meteorological Department (IMD), who declined to be
named.
Monsoon arrived in the southern state of Kerala on June 3 against the usual June 1, but has advanced quickly since.
Since the start of the season, the monsoon has delivered 25% more-than-normal rainfall, boosted by higher rainfall in the central India region, data compiled by IMD showed.
Monsoon is crucial for India’s $2.7-trillion economy, as it delivers nearly 70% of the rain needed by farms, besides replenishing reservoirs and aquifers.
Sowing of summer-sown crops such as cotton, rice, soybean, corn and pulses has already started in southern and western states, and could start in central and northern India this week, said a
Mumbai-based dealer with a global trading firm.
“Farmers are interested in rice and oilseeds due to higher prices. We might see higher area under soybean and paddy,” the dealer said.
India is the world’s biggest exporter of rice and top importer of edible oils such as palm oil, soyoil and sunflower oil.
Nearly half of India’s farmland gets no irrigation and is dependent on the annual rains from June to September. Farming accounts for nearly 15% of the economy but sustains more than half of
a population of 1.3 billion.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Trending News
Local news in brief : anaheim : get-out-the-vote push focuses on the youngThe start of a countywide drive to interest 18-year-old students in voting will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the Anaheim...
March 5, 2007 | The NationThe stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox. Sign up LettersLettersFSG: NO PRESSURE HERE New York ...
Tej Pratap seeks divorce; says marriage against his wishesPatna, Nov 3 (PTI) RJD leader Tej Pratap Yadav said on Saturday that he was a simpleton who was forced to marry the “urb...
Steve Bannon removed from National Security Council in shake-up of Trump’s administrationMr Trump’s controversial pick for his inner security circle has been removed from his post just a few months after being...
Soviet 'hero' worker's life reported ruined by chiefsMOSCOW — Josef Stalin and his successor, Nikita S. Khrushchev, drove the nation’s showcase hard worker to drink and ruin...
Latests News
Monsoon covers two-third of India earlier than usual, to accelerate crop sowingMUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s annual monsoon rains have covered two-third of the country, nearly a fortnight ahead of the n...
NASA's Mercury mission given last lease of lifeThe News Minute | March 30, 2015 | 5:45 pm ISTNASA engineers have lifted the orbit of the Mercury probe - currently oper...
Husbands cannot act as proxy for wives who are elected representatives, says Karnataka governmentThe News Minute | December 28, 2014 | 11:30 am IST The Karnataka government has issued orders banning heads of panchayat...
Structure of α-latrotoxin oligomers reveals that divalent cation-dependent tetramers form membrane poresWe report here the first three-dimensional structure of α-latrotoxin, a black widow spider neurotoxin, which forms membr...
Page not foundEnglish Editionहिन्दी (Hindi)বাংলা (Bengali)मराठी (Marathi)ગુજરાતી (Gujarati)ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)தமிழ் (Tamil)മലയാളം (Malayal...