India will receive normal rainfall over the 2016 monsoon season, not
surplus as previously expected, with the chances of a La Nina weather
pattern emerging over the period seen as unlikely, three senior
officials at state-run weather department said.
A forecast for above-average rains had stoked fears of crop damage during harvest, but with normal rainfall farmers can reap bumper crops.
The June-September monsoon is crucial for India's rain-fed farm sector that accounts for nearly 15 percent of its $2 trillion economy - Asia's third biggest.
"Rainfall is likely to remain in the normal range," a senior official at India Meteorological Department (IMD) told on Wednesday Aug 24,2016
India's weather office defines average, or normal, rainfall as between 96 % and 104 % of a 50-year average of 89 cm for the entire four-month season
India has so far received 2 % lower rainfall than normal since the start of the monsoon season on June01,2016
The monsoon, which delivers 70 % of India's annual rainfall, is critical for the country's 263 million farmers and their rice, cane, corn, cotton and soybean crops because nearly half of its farmland lacks irrigation.
A forecast for above-average rains had stoked fears of crop damage during harvest, but with normal rainfall farmers can reap bumper crops.
The June-September monsoon is crucial for India's rain-fed farm sector that accounts for nearly 15 percent of its $2 trillion economy - Asia's third biggest.
"Rainfall is likely to remain in the normal range," a senior official at India Meteorological Department (IMD) told on Wednesday Aug 24,2016
India's weather office defines average, or normal, rainfall as between 96 % and 104 % of a 50-year average of 89 cm for the entire four-month season
India has so far received 2 % lower rainfall than normal since the start of the monsoon season on June01,2016
The monsoon, which delivers 70 % of India's annual rainfall, is critical for the country's 263 million farmers and their rice, cane, corn, cotton and soybean crops because nearly half of its farmland lacks irrigation.
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