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El Niño effect: Why India may see weak monsoon and harsher summerIndia faces a double blow as the IMD forecasts below-normal monsoon rainfall, with a 60% chance of deficient rains due to El Niño. This, co...
Dry Days Ahead: Monsoon likely to be below normalIndia anticipates below-average monsoon rains this year, with precipitation expected to be less than 90% of the long-period average. This f...
Fertilisers not easily available in international market, pushes for organic farming: Union Minister Shivraj Singh ChouhanUnion Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan highlighted global fertilizer procurement difficulties. He urged states and farmers to emb...
Uneven rainfall disrupts pulses, horticulture, and rice productionRainfall during the ongoing southwest monsoon season covered up for the deficiency in the initial phase, reaching an excess of 7.3% as of A...
Scanty rains hit kharif crop sowing"Farmers in several parts of the country, where there is a deficiency of rainfall, are in a wait-and-see situation," said Santosh Jhanwar, ...
Many districts of Bihar, Jharkhand and Bengal may go for early rabi plantingThe country overall received 7% more rains than the long-term average during the 2022 June-September monsoon season. But several regions re...
Normal rain likely over most parts in September: IMDOne-third of districts have witnessed deficient rainfall, even though the country's cumulative rainfall this monsoon has been slightly abov...
Rice acreage down 13% till Aug 5 due to rain shortfallThe area covered under paddy stood at 274.30 lakh hectare as on August 5, against 314.14 lakh hectare in the corresponding period last year...
Gangetic belt will get good rainfall from now on: IMD chiefThe monsoon trough has not shifted for the last 10-15 days. But the good news is that from July 18, the monsoon trough is expected to move ...
Six per cent more rainfall than normal recorded in country so far; deficiency in N IndiaMonsoon arrived in Kerala on June 1, its normal onset date, marking the commencement of the four-month rainfall season in the country. Indi...
Monsoon deficiency drops to 21% but large parts of country still under deficient rainfall categoryThe overall monsoon deficiency, which was 33 per cent at the start of the month, has dipped to 21 per cent.
84% of IMD's subdivisions record deficient rainfall; 80% reservoirs have below normal storageThe official rainfall season starts from June 1 to September 30, but the overall monsoon deficiency until June 22 still remains around 39 p...
Deficient rain in 1/4th of the country: IMD dataBihar has recorded the highest monsoon deficiency of 48 per cent, while east Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand have recorded 46 and 42 per cent r...
Enhanced southwest monsoon to bring good rains: IMDIncidentally, the fresh round of "enhanced activity" of monsoon has also stopped the withdrawal of monsoon, albeit for a short period.
Monsoon deficit to widen, impact kharif crop, says IMDThe MeT department has projected 16 per cent deficiency in the remaining two months of the four-month season, that is, in August and Septem...
June witnessed 16 per cent more than normal rainfall: IMDThe IMD said July and August will receive 8 and 10 per cent less rainfall respectively. It has also predicted a 'deficient' rainfall this y...
Good monsoon: 39% of country gets excess rains, IMD data sayOver 39% of the country received excess rainfall this year, an increase by 6% over last week.
After flood, Bihar govt declares 33 out of 38 districts drought-affectedBihar government declared 33 out of the 38 districts of state as drought-hit.
- Deficit in rainfall rises to 4%, fuels Kharif sowing fears
About 155 lakh hectare of paddy had been sown by July 22, which is less than half the acreage last year. Deficient rainfall can affect farm...
- Dry spell in most parts raises seasonal rain deficiency by 1%
As monsoon moves towards withdrawal phase, absence of rain in northwest and central regions has increased rainfall deficiency for the entir...