Monsoon rains hit southern Kerala

New Delhi: Monsoon arrived on cue in Kerala on the southern coast on Saturday, a top weather official said, boosting prospects for farm output and alleviating concerns of further suffering for key cotton and sugar growing areas hit by drought.

“The monsoon has arrived in Kerala and the large parts of adjoining Tamil Nadu,” LS Rathore, director general of the state-run India Meteorological Department, said.