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Article: INDIA: LACK OF MONSOON RAINFALL DELAYS CROPS.(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- July 19, 2004
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According to "Business Standard", nearly half of the country's 524 districts have received below normal monsoon showers, resulting in delayed planting and withering of sown crops in a vast tract. Till July 7, the cumulative monsoon rainfall was deficient by over 20 per cent in 240 districts. These include 54 districts, which received only scanty rainfall, where crop sowing is either yet to begin or the earlier sown crops have withered away, requiring re-sowing. The situation has not improved much since then even though the monsoon seems to be reviving slowly in the peninsular and central parts of the country. Over 50 per ...