The New Delhi: Indian monsoon rains, crucial for the economy billions of dollars of 21 minutes has been below normal for several weeks, until June 1923, India's Meteorological Agency said, reflecting the slow progress at that time was in June.
Weather officials and agricultural experts noted that the low level of rainfall was not yet alarming, because the monsoon is expected to revive in the next 3 days helping farmers plant crops such as sugar cane, rice, oilseeds, as well as a large area .
Good monsoon rains in 2010 will be critical to offset the decline in the past year the drought on agricultural production, and nearly four decades of hit rice, sugarcane and oilseeds.
The sharp increase in four months in July to avoid the risk of agricultural production affected.
The government, struggling with high inflation, largely depends on the normal monsoon rains to alleviate high food prices. Bureau forecast said the rainfall was 32.8 mm across the country this week in the usual 41.6 mm, the Weather Service, adding that the seasonal precipitation 97.4 mm, 11.1 percent lower than the 1 June and 23 June.
The price index for food in India increased by 16.90 per cent during the year to June 1912 is higher than the annual reading of 16.12 percent last week, government data released Thursday showed.
Government Commission will meet Friday to decide on the increase in fuel prices, a move that could stoke inflation and further spark protests from the opposition. Weather officials continue to hope rain will improve.
'Monsoon to be resurrected in three days in eastern and central parts of the country, "said BP Yadav, a representative of the weather bureau of the state.
Other officials said the weather was good rains spread. "Failure does not mean poor distribution," said the official agrometeorological incomplete, and allies fear of possible errors in the monsoon. Data from the weather bureau shows some 20 drought since 1901, and 17 were nearly normal precipitation.
Weather Bureau issued an official forecast of monsoon rains in the second half of April. Monsoon is given to rice, sugar cane, cotton, oilseeds growing regions in the south-western India, and arrived in soybean growing areas in central India.
Not yet reached the northern Uttar Pradesh, in stock-producing countries of the state.
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