Country receives 3% deficient rains since June

15 Jul 2011 Evaluate

In a series of bad news for the government, after a buoyant start, India's monsoon slipped into the red in the first two week of July with the country receiving 3% deficient rains since its start in June. According to the statistics released by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), eight of the 36 sub-divisions had received deficient rainfall in a month when farmers take up sowing in a big way. July is the key planting month during the June-September monsoon, when rainfall distribution over major crop regions is important for sowing crops.

Monsoon rains were below 19% of normal level for week ending July 13, however, IMD has presented an outlook of fairly widespread rainfall over many parts of the country except for southeast peninsula for the coming five days. The southeast peninsula is likely to get scattered rains during the period.

Previous year, for the week ending July 14, rainfall was 24% below the normal level, however, monsoon picked up in remaining period of June-September and monsoon ended as normal. In April, IMD had estimated normal monsoon for the current year and pegged the rainfall at 98% of the long period of 89 cm.

India, one of the world's biggest producers and consumers of grains and sugar, relies on the June to September rains for 60% of its farms and failure of the monsoon can force it to import, sending international prices higher. Normal monsoon is essential to curb food inflation; whereby good farm output can reduce the prices of commodities. A well distributed monsoon would boost farm production and help ease high food inflation that stood at 8.31% in the year to July 2.

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