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India is likely to receive monsoon rainfall between 94% to 106% of a long-term average in July (the most critical month for the planting of significant crops like rice), the state-run Indian Meteorological Department predicted on Friday.
Earlier, state-run weather service reported that India received 8% less rainfall than average in June due to a lack of rain in the country’s central regions.
The monsoon, being the country’s pivotal season, contributes to about 70% of India’s yearly precipitation and is essential to the country’s $2.7 trillion agriculture-based economy, arrived on the southern Kerala state coast on May 29—two days earlier than usual. Later, its development halted for more than a week.
While, in the information gathered by the India Meteorological Department, states in central India that cultivate cotton, soybeans, and sugar cane witnessed up to a 54% reduction in rainfall in June compared to the usual.
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