The sudden rains towards the end of monsoon leading to floods in certain areas of the country may hit harvest ready crops such as cotton, groundnut, moong, tur, maize and even paddy. Areas in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Karnataka are reported to be badly hit by the rains. Preliminary estimates suggest that standing […]
Credit rating agency ICRA, which last month projected a hefty 11 percent contraction in India’s GDP growth in 2020-21, is expecting the exceptionally good run of the country’s farm sector to contribute to growth in the second half of the current fiscal. The agency released its broader report on economic growth trends in the agriculture sector […]
India’s production of the main summer crop rise is expected to rise by as much as 14% this year 115.8 million tons, helped by a 9.3% increase in the planting area, according to Skymet Weather. Kharif (summer season) paddy yield is expected to be around 2,773 kilogram (kg) per hectare, which is about 4% higher […]
With only a week for September to end, a rampant low-pressure area is busy doing the rounds and spreading rain over East, Central and Peninsular India and the West Coast. The monsoon surplus for the country as a whole has inched up to over eight per cent for the June 1- September 22 period. The […]
India is likely to reap a bumper pulses crop despite crop damage due to heavy rains that has caused flooding and an outbreak of a fungal disease in parts of the country, Agriculture Commissioner S.K. Malhotra said. Speaking at a webinar of India Pulses and Grains Association on Friday, Malhotra said timely rains in June […]
Just when India was expecting a strong monsoon season would produce a bumper summer season crop, there is a twist in the tale. Heavy monsoon rains are expected to revive at a time when usually the seasonal clouds start to withdraw from over the subcontinent. The development comes due to a well-marked low pressure area […]
Heavy monsoon rains have damaged India’s main summer-sown oilseed crop soybean, although the total output will still likely be higher than last year. “We think that the output could be around 105 lakh tons, instead of 115 lakh tons that we were anticipating at the start of the season,” said B.V. Mehta, executive director of […]
The rain god’s bounty with the seasonal monsoon has lightened the sombre mood in the Indian economy, stirring hopes of a demand pick up during the upcoming festival season. After an exceptionally wet monsoon season between June and end-August that saw rainfall at 107.5% of the long period average, rains have petered out again in September. But the […]
The Indian Meteorology Department (IMD) has put to rest the fears of farmers in central and western regions of India who were worried about damage to crops due to excessive rains last month. After heavy rains in August and amid fears of another year of possible loss of crops like soyabean and tur in Madhya […]
Farmer Rao Talib rues that a late monsoon burst has partly damaged his rice crop in the northern Khedi Shikohpur village near Dehradun, but he is still hopeful that the harvest will be enough to see his family through the Covid pandemic. The responsibility of maintaining a large family of nine has grown as recently one […]
