Monsoon rainfall in the crucial month of August this year remained 24 per cent below normal, according to India Meteorological Department (IMD). However, given that crop sowing until August 27 was just 2 per cent lower than a year ago and distribution in key grain-producing regions remained good, thanks to plentiful showers earlier in the […]
Area sown with paddy in India is currently down marginally at 349.24 lakh hectare so far in the kharif season of 2021-22 crop year (July-June) from the year-ago period, according to the data released by the Agriculture Ministry. Farmers had planted paddy in 351.52 lakh hectare in the same season previous crop year. Sowing of […]
India’s critical southwest monsoon, which stalled from June-end to mid-July, has accelerated to close the deficit in long period average (LPA) of rainfall from 7% as on July 12 to just 4% as on August 8, but concerns over kharif crop sowing persist because of uneven distribution of rainfall, ratings agency CRISIL said in a […]
Worries about patchy rains hitting summer crop acreage and the resultant food grain shortage and farmers’ income were kept on hold, as latest Met Department data showed a smart revival of monsoon rains with nearly even distribution across the country. Monsoon rainfall has been normal or above normal in 81% of the country as on […]
India’s coal import rose 20.4 per cent to 19.92 million tonnes (MT) in the month of May 2021. The country had imported 16.54 MT of coal in May last fiscal, according to data compiled by mjunction Services. “On a year-on-year basis, however, India’s coal and coke imports in May 2021 were up 20.4 per cent […]
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted normal rainfall this month, even as monsoon showers may resume after July 15. The rainfall in July, the wettest of the four-month monsoon season (June-September), may be around 96% of the long period average (LPA) of 28.5 cm, said the director general of IMD. The first month of […]
Sowing of summer crops in the first three weeks of the season has remained below last year’s levels in most parts of the country. Farmers are waiting for July showers too start the sowing in earnest all across the country. While the southwest monsoon covered most of the country earlier than the normal schedule, causing […]
The key southwest monsoon that irrigates most of India’s vast northern grain bowl has slowed down and is unlikely to move faster due to lack of proper weather conditions, the Ministry of Earth Science said in a statement. “Further advance of southwest monsoon into remaining parts of Rajasthan, West UP, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi & Punjab […]
The India Meteorological Department said on Monday that the southwest monsoon is likely to hit the Kerala coast on June 3, even as private weather forecaster Skymet said the monsoon has hit the southern state, according to Geojit’s daily report on agricultural commodities. Castor seed prices, which have already risen 11% in the last three […]
The government of Maharashtra has set higher production targets for the coming kharif season of 2021-22 by increasing the state’s sowing area to 157 lakh hectare (ha) from last season’s 140 lakh ha, following predictions of a higher-than-average monsoon by the Met Department. The state had utilised 151 lakh ha for kharif crops in 2020-21, […]
