Monsoon Covers Half Of India; Rainfall Approaches Average

Environmental News from India: 

India’s annual monsoon rainfall has covered more than half of the country and conditions are favorable for it to advance into central, northern, and western regions this week, the weather department said on Monday.

The monsoon’s progress will help farmers accelerate the sowing of summer-sown crops, which has been lagging due to below-normal rainfall in the first half of June, especially in central India.

The monsoon has covered all of southern and eastern India and most of the central state of Madhya Pradesh, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in a statement.

“Monsoon has revived. This week many regions in southern and central India would get heavy rainfall,” an IMD official told Reuters.

Conditions are favorable for the monsoon to advance further into Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, said the official, who was not authorized to speak with media so declined to be identified.

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Source: Reuters