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A fall in the rate of inflation &lt;em&gt;(on point to point basis) &lt;/em&gt;in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place during recent months in the agricultural sector, which is expected to further cool off food prices in the near future. &lt;br /&gt;
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A document from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare released in September 2016 shows that there has been an increase in the gross area sown under rice, pulses and coarse cereals during &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; 2016-17 vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same season last year.&lt;br /&gt;
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This agriculture year&#039;s &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season, which is between July and October during the south-west monsoon, has seen a rise by 4.2 percent in total sown area vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same period in 2015-16, as per the latest available data. The total sown area as on 9 September, 2016, as per reports received by the Ministry of Agriculture from various states, stands at 105.4 million hectares as compared to 101.2 million hectares in 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Table 1: Gross sown area under major crops (million hectares) during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of various years&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;1. Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;2. Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh&amp;nbsp;
hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, dated 9 
September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: &lt;/strong&gt;The data on gross sown area under various crops (during kharif) from 2009-10 to 2014-15 has been taken from Economic Survey 2015-16 &lt;br /&gt;
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Since the &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season (and thus &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;sowing) of 2016-17 agriculture year is not yet over (at the time of writing the present newsalert), the estimates of gross sown area under various crops in this season might further increase over the coming days. . &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
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The increase in sown area under various crops in the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of 2016-17 could be attributed to the rise in minimum support prices that were declared recently for crops like paddy, coarse cereals, pulses, oilseeds and cotton. Normal to excessive monsoon rainfall received by various parts of the country is another factor, which is responsible for improvement in area sown under various crops during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season as compared to the last year. &lt;br /&gt;
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The total area sown under pulses during this years&amp;rsquo; &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season has been the highest as compared to the sown area under pulses during the last 7 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; seasons. It means that the country might see a record production of pulses during the agriculture year 2016-17, if everything goes well. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;
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Similarly, there has been a marginal increase in the area sown under oilseeds from 18.2 million hectares in 2015-16 to 18.7 million hectares in 2016-17 during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season.&lt;br /&gt;
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It must be noted that in June this year, the NDA&#039;s Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decided to give a bonus, over and above the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), of Rs. 425/- per quintal for &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; pulses, namely Arhar (Tur), Urad and Moong, a bonus of Rs 200/- per quintal for Sesamum and a bonus of Rs 100/- per quintal for other &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;oilseeds namely, Groundnut-in-shell, Sunflower seed, Soyabean, and Nigerseed.&lt;br /&gt;
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Although the total sown area during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season under rice has increased from 37 million hectares to 38 million hectares between 2015-16 and 2016-17, the level at which it stands presently is still lower than what existed in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Please see table-1. &lt;br /&gt;
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It is worth noting that for paddy (common variety), the MSP recommended during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season has been Rs. 1470/- per quintal. The MSP for paddy (common variety) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1410/- per quintal. Similarly, for paddy (Grade A), the MSP recommended has been Rs. 1510/- per quintal during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. The MSP for paddy (Grade A) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1450/- per quintal.&lt;br /&gt;
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From the table-1, it could be observed that there has been a dip in the gross area under cotton production from 11.5 million hectares to 10.2 million hectares between the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;seasons of 2015-16 and 2016-17.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Monsoon Rainfall &lt;br /&gt;
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As mentioned earlier, normal to excessive monsoon rainfall in different parts of India is responsible for increased area under &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;cultivation. A document entitled &lt;em&gt;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&lt;/em&gt; from the India Meteorological Department (dated 12 April, 2016) predicts that the monsoon rainfall during the 2016 monsoon season (June to September) averaged over the country as a whole is likely to be 111% &amp;plusmn; 5% of long period model average (LPMA).&lt;br /&gt;
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The document entitled &lt;em&gt;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&lt;/em&gt; from the IMD (dated 8 September 2016), however, shows that for the country as a whole, the cumulative rainfall during this year&amp;rsquo;s monsoon upto 7 September has been 4 percent below the Long Period Average (LPA). &lt;br /&gt;
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The same document shows that the cumulative rainfall during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions north-west India and central India have been 2 percent and 3 percent above the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
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The cumulative rainfall during the span 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions south Peninsula and east &amp;amp; north-east India have been 11 percent and 14 percent below the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Chart 1: Monsoon Rainfall (mm) received by various states and UTs during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;/em&gt;
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The chart-1 shows that excessive monsoon rainfall was received by east Madhya Pradesh, west Madhya Pradesh, east Rajasthan, west Rajasthan and Haryana during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016. Deficient monsoon rainfall took place in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, parts of north-east, coastal Karnataka and parts of Gujarat &amp;amp; Daman.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
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The chart-2 shows the distribution of cumulative rainfall received by the country from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Chart 2: Distribution of Cumulative Rainfall (mm) for the country (from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016)&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt; India Meteorological Department, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in&quot;&gt;www.imd.gov.in&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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According to the Central Water Commission, the live water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on 8 September, 2016 has been 108.104 BCM, which is 69 percent of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs. The live storage available in 91 reservoirs as per the 8 September, 2016 Bulletin is 117 percent of the live storage of corresponding period of last year and 97 percent of storage of average of last ten years.&lt;br /&gt;
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Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Press release: Consumer Price Index numbers on Base 2012=100 for Rural, Urban and Combined for the month of August 2016, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, 12 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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India Meteorological Department press releases,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php&quot;&gt;http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country (week ending 8 September, 2016), Central Water Commission, please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for Kharif Crops of 2016-17 season, Press Information Bureau/ Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), 1 June, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access 
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Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall, India Meteorological Department, 12 April, 2016, Please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Inflation down, RBI rate cut hopes up -Asit Ranjan Mishra, Livemint.com, 13 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;../latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Kharif crop planting jumps 4% year on year -Madhvi Sally, The Economic Times, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;../latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html&quot;&gt;click here &lt;/a&gt;to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Kharif sowing till date 4.2 per cent higher than last year, The Hindu Business Line, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;../latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;A fall in the rate of inflation &lt;em&gt;(on point to point basis) &lt;/em&gt;in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place during recent months in the agricultural sector, which is expected to further cool off food prices in the near future. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A document from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare released in September 2016 shows that there has been an increase in the gross area sown under rice, pulses and coarse cereals during &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; 2016-17 vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same season last year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This agriculture year&#039;s &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season, which is between July and October during the south-west monsoon, has seen a rise by 4.2 percent in total sown area vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same period in 2015-16, as per the latest available data. The total sown area as on 9 September, 2016, as per reports received by the Ministry of Agriculture from various states, stands at 105.4 million hectares as compared to 101.2 million hectares in 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Table 1: Gross sown area under major crops (million hectares) during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of various years&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Table%201%20Gross%20area%20under%20major%20crops%20(million%20hectares)%20during%20kharif%20season%20of%20various%20years.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Area sown under various crops&quot; width=&quot;273&quot; height=&quot;87&quot; /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;1. Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot; title=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;2. Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh&amp;nbsp;hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, dated 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot; title=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: &lt;/strong&gt;The data on gross sown area under various crops (during kharif) from 2009-10 to 2014-15 has been taken from Economic Survey 2015-16 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season (and thus &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;sowing) of 2016-17 agriculture year is not yet over (at the time of writing the present newsalert), the estimates of gross sown area under various crops in this season might further increase over the coming days. . &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The increase in sown area under various crops in the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of 2016-17 could be attributed to the rise in minimum support prices that were declared recently for crops like paddy, coarse cereals, pulses, oilseeds and cotton. Normal to excessive monsoon rainfall received by various parts of the country is another factor, which is responsible for improvement in area sown under various crops during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season as compared to the last year. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The total area sown under pulses during this years&amp;rsquo; &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season has been the highest as compared to the sown area under pulses during the last 7 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; seasons. It means that the country might see a record production of pulses during the agriculture year 2016-17, if everything goes well. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Similarly, there has been a marginal increase in the area sown under oilseeds from 18.2 million hectares in 2015-16 to 18.7 million hectares in 2016-17 during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It must be noted that in June this year, the NDA&#039;s Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decided to give a bonus, over and above the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), of Rs. 425/- per quintal for &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; pulses, namely Arhar (Tur), Urad and Moong, a bonus of Rs 200/- per quintal for Sesamum and a bonus of Rs 100/- per quintal for other &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;oilseeds namely, Groundnut-in-shell, Sunflower seed, Soyabean, and Nigerseed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although the total sown area during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season under rice has increased from 37 million hectares to 38 million hectares between 2015-16 and 2016-17, the level at which it stands presently is still lower than what existed in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Please see table-1. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is worth noting that for paddy (common variety), the MSP recommended during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season has been Rs. 1470/- per quintal. The MSP for paddy (common variety) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1410/- per quintal. Similarly, for paddy (Grade A), the MSP recommended has been Rs. 1510/- per quintal during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. The MSP for paddy (Grade A) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1450/- per quintal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the table-1, it could be observed that there has been a dip in the gross area under cotton production from 11.5 million hectares to 10.2 million hectares between the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;seasons of 2015-16 and 2016-17.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monsoon Rainfall &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As mentioned earlier, normal to excessive monsoon rainfall in different parts of India is responsible for increased area under &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;cultivation. A document entitled &lt;em&gt;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&lt;/em&gt; from the India Meteorological Department (dated 12 April, 2016) predicts that the monsoon rainfall during the 2016 monsoon season (June to September) averaged over the country as a whole is likely to be 111% &amp;plusmn; 5% of long period model average (LPMA).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The document entitled &lt;em&gt;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&lt;/em&gt; from the IMD (dated 8 September 2016), however, shows that for the country as a whole, the cumulative rainfall during this year&amp;rsquo;s monsoon upto 7 September has been 4 percent below the Long Period Average (LPA). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same document shows that the cumulative rainfall during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions north-west India and central India have been 2 percent and 3 percent above the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cumulative rainfall during the span 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions south Peninsula and east &amp;amp; north-east India have been 11 percent and 14 percent below the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chart 1: Monsoon Rainfall (mm) received by various states and UTs during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Chart%201%20Monsoon%20Rainfall%20during%201%20June%20to%207%20Sep%202016.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;Chart 1 Rainfall&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;417&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The chart-1 shows that excessive monsoon rainfall was received by east Madhya Pradesh, west Madhya Pradesh, east Rajasthan, west Rajasthan and Haryana during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016. Deficient monsoon rainfall took place in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, parts of north-east, coastal Karnataka and parts of Gujarat &amp;amp; Daman.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The chart-2 shows the distribution of cumulative rainfall received by the country from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chart 2: Distribution of Cumulative Rainfall (mm) for the country (from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Chart%202%20Cumulative%20Distribution%20of%20Rainfall%20from%201%20June%20to%2011%20September%202016.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Chart 2&quot; width=&quot;225&quot; height=&quot;79&quot; /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt; India Meteorological Department, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in&quot; title=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in&quot;&gt;www.imd.gov.in&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the Central Water Commission, the live water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on 8 September, 2016 has been 108.104 BCM, which is 69 percent of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs. The live storage available in 91 reservoirs as per the 8 September, 2016 Bulletin is 117 percent of the live storage of corresponding period of last year and 97 percent of storage of average of last ten years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;References&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot; title=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Press release: Consumer Price Index numbers on Base 2012=100 for Rural, Urban and Combined for the month of August 2016, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, 12 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf&quot; title=&quot;http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;India Meteorological Department press releases,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php&quot; title=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php&quot;&gt;http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country (week ending 8 September, 2016), Central Water Commission, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for Kharif Crops of 2016-17 season, Press Information Bureau/ Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), 1 June, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856&quot; title=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall, India Meteorological Department, 12 April, 2016, Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot; title=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inflation down, RBI rate cut hopes up -Asit Ranjan Mishra, Livemint.com, 13 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kharif crop planting jumps 4% year on year -Madhvi Sally, The Economic Times, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html&quot;&gt;click here &lt;/a&gt;to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kharif sowing till date 4.2 per cent higher than last year, The Hindu Business Line, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; 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	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Record increase in sown area under pulses during kharif 2016-17, shows latest data&#039;,
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A fall in the rate of inflation &lt;em&gt;(on point to point basis) &lt;/em&gt;in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place during recent months in the agricultural sector, which is expected to further cool off food prices in the near future. &lt;br /&gt;
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A document from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare released in September 2016 shows that there has been an increase in the gross area sown under rice, pulses and coarse cereals during &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; 2016-17 vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same season last year.&lt;br /&gt;
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This agriculture year&#039;s &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season, which is between July and October during the south-west monsoon, has seen a rise by 4.2 percent in total sown area vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same period in 2015-16, as per the latest available data. The total sown area as on 9 September, 2016, as per reports received by the Ministry of Agriculture from various states, stands at 105.4 million hectares as compared to 101.2 million hectares in 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Table 1: Gross sown area under major crops (million hectares) during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of various years&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;1. Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;2. Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh&amp;nbsp;
hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, dated 9 
September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: &lt;/strong&gt;The data on gross sown area under various crops (during kharif) from 2009-10 to 2014-15 has been taken from Economic Survey 2015-16 &lt;br /&gt;
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Since the &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season (and thus &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;sowing) of 2016-17 agriculture year is not yet over (at the time of writing the present newsalert), the estimates of gross sown area under various crops in this season might further increase over the coming days. . &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
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The increase in sown area under various crops in the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of 2016-17 could be attributed to the rise in minimum support prices that were declared recently for crops like paddy, coarse cereals, pulses, oilseeds and cotton. Normal to excessive monsoon rainfall received by various parts of the country is another factor, which is responsible for improvement in area sown under various crops during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season as compared to the last year. &lt;br /&gt;
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The total area sown under pulses during this years&amp;rsquo; &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season has been the highest as compared to the sown area under pulses during the last 7 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; seasons. It means that the country might see a record production of pulses during the agriculture year 2016-17, if everything goes well. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;
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Similarly, there has been a marginal increase in the area sown under oilseeds from 18.2 million hectares in 2015-16 to 18.7 million hectares in 2016-17 during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season.&lt;br /&gt;
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It must be noted that in June this year, the NDA&#039;s Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decided to give a bonus, over and above the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), of Rs. 425/- per quintal for &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; pulses, namely Arhar (Tur), Urad and Moong, a bonus of Rs 200/- per quintal for Sesamum and a bonus of Rs 100/- per quintal for other &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;oilseeds namely, Groundnut-in-shell, Sunflower seed, Soyabean, and Nigerseed.&lt;br /&gt;
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Although the total sown area during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season under rice has increased from 37 million hectares to 38 million hectares between 2015-16 and 2016-17, the level at which it stands presently is still lower than what existed in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Please see table-1. &lt;br /&gt;
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It is worth noting that for paddy (common variety), the MSP recommended during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season has been Rs. 1470/- per quintal. The MSP for paddy (common variety) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1410/- per quintal. Similarly, for paddy (Grade A), the MSP recommended has been Rs. 1510/- per quintal during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. The MSP for paddy (Grade A) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1450/- per quintal.&lt;br /&gt;
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From the table-1, it could be observed that there has been a dip in the gross area under cotton production from 11.5 million hectares to 10.2 million hectares between the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;seasons of 2015-16 and 2016-17.&lt;br /&gt;
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As mentioned earlier, normal to excessive monsoon rainfall in different parts of India is responsible for increased area under &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;cultivation. A document entitled &lt;em&gt;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&lt;/em&gt; from the India Meteorological Department (dated 12 April, 2016) predicts that the monsoon rainfall during the 2016 monsoon season (June to September) averaged over the country as a whole is likely to be 111% &amp;plusmn; 5% of long period model average (LPMA).&lt;br /&gt;
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The document entitled &lt;em&gt;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&lt;/em&gt; from the IMD (dated 8 September 2016), however, shows that for the country as a whole, the cumulative rainfall during this year&amp;rsquo;s monsoon upto 7 September has been 4 percent below the Long Period Average (LPA). &lt;br /&gt;
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The same document shows that the cumulative rainfall during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions north-west India and central India have been 2 percent and 3 percent above the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
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The cumulative rainfall during the span 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions south Peninsula and east &amp;amp; north-east India have been 11 percent and 14 percent below the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Chart 1: Monsoon Rainfall (mm) received by various states and UTs during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;/em&gt;
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The chart-1 shows that excessive monsoon rainfall was received by east Madhya Pradesh, west Madhya Pradesh, east Rajasthan, west Rajasthan and Haryana during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016. Deficient monsoon rainfall took place in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, parts of north-east, coastal Karnataka and parts of Gujarat &amp;amp; Daman.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
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The chart-2 shows the distribution of cumulative rainfall received by the country from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Chart 2: Distribution of Cumulative Rainfall (mm) for the country (from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016)&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt; India Meteorological Department, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in&quot;&gt;www.imd.gov.in&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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According to the Central Water Commission, the live water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on 8 September, 2016 has been 108.104 BCM, which is 69 percent of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs. The live storage available in 91 reservoirs as per the 8 September, 2016 Bulletin is 117 percent of the live storage of corresponding period of last year and 97 percent of storage of average of last ten years.&lt;br /&gt;
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Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Press release: Consumer Price Index numbers on Base 2012=100 for Rural, Urban and Combined for the month of August 2016, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, 12 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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India Meteorological Department press releases,&lt;br /&gt;
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Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country (week ending 8 September, 2016), Central Water Commission, please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for Kharif Crops of 2016-17 season, Press Information Bureau/ Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), 1 June, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access 
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Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall, India Meteorological Department, 12 April, 2016, Please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Inflation down, RBI rate cut hopes up -Asit Ranjan Mishra, Livemint.com, 13 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;../latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Kharif crop planting jumps 4% year on year -Madhvi Sally, The Economic Times, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;../latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html&quot;&gt;click here &lt;/a&gt;to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Kharif sowing till date 4.2 per cent higher than last year, The Hindu Business Line, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;../latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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A fall in the rate of inflation (on point to point basis) in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;A fall in the rate of inflation &lt;em&gt;(on point to point basis) &lt;/em&gt;in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place during recent months in the agricultural sector, which is expected to further cool off food prices in the near future. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A document from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare released in September 2016 shows that there has been an increase in the gross area sown under rice, pulses and coarse cereals during &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; 2016-17 vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same season last year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This agriculture year&#039;s &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season, which is between July and October during the south-west monsoon, has seen a rise by 4.2 percent in total sown area vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same period in 2015-16, as per the latest available data. The total sown area as on 9 September, 2016, as per reports received by the Ministry of Agriculture from various states, stands at 105.4 million hectares as compared to 101.2 million hectares in 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Table 1: Gross sown area under major crops (million hectares) during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of various years&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Table%201%20Gross%20area%20under%20major%20crops%20(million%20hectares)%20during%20kharif%20season%20of%20various%20years.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Area sown under various crops&quot; width=&quot;273&quot; height=&quot;87&quot; /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;1. Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot; title=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;2. Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh&amp;nbsp;hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, dated 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot; title=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: &lt;/strong&gt;The data on gross sown area under various crops (during kharif) from 2009-10 to 2014-15 has been taken from Economic Survey 2015-16 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season (and thus &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;sowing) of 2016-17 agriculture year is not yet over (at the time of writing the present newsalert), the estimates of gross sown area under various crops in this season might further increase over the coming days. . &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The increase in sown area under various crops in the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of 2016-17 could be attributed to the rise in minimum support prices that were declared recently for crops like paddy, coarse cereals, pulses, oilseeds and cotton. Normal to excessive monsoon rainfall received by various parts of the country is another factor, which is responsible for improvement in area sown under various crops during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season as compared to the last year. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The total area sown under pulses during this years&amp;rsquo; &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season has been the highest as compared to the sown area under pulses during the last 7 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; seasons. It means that the country might see a record production of pulses during the agriculture year 2016-17, if everything goes well. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Similarly, there has been a marginal increase in the area sown under oilseeds from 18.2 million hectares in 2015-16 to 18.7 million hectares in 2016-17 during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It must be noted that in June this year, the NDA&#039;s Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decided to give a bonus, over and above the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), of Rs. 425/- per quintal for &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; pulses, namely Arhar (Tur), Urad and Moong, a bonus of Rs 200/- per quintal for Sesamum and a bonus of Rs 100/- per quintal for other &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;oilseeds namely, Groundnut-in-shell, Sunflower seed, Soyabean, and Nigerseed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although the total sown area during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season under rice has increased from 37 million hectares to 38 million hectares between 2015-16 and 2016-17, the level at which it stands presently is still lower than what existed in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Please see table-1. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is worth noting that for paddy (common variety), the MSP recommended during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season has been Rs. 1470/- per quintal. The MSP for paddy (common variety) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1410/- per quintal. Similarly, for paddy (Grade A), the MSP recommended has been Rs. 1510/- per quintal during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. The MSP for paddy (Grade A) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1450/- per quintal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the table-1, it could be observed that there has been a dip in the gross area under cotton production from 11.5 million hectares to 10.2 million hectares between the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;seasons of 2015-16 and 2016-17.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monsoon Rainfall &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As mentioned earlier, normal to excessive monsoon rainfall in different parts of India is responsible for increased area under &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;cultivation. A document entitled &lt;em&gt;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&lt;/em&gt; from the India Meteorological Department (dated 12 April, 2016) predicts that the monsoon rainfall during the 2016 monsoon season (June to September) averaged over the country as a whole is likely to be 111% &amp;plusmn; 5% of long period model average (LPMA).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The document entitled &lt;em&gt;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&lt;/em&gt; from the IMD (dated 8 September 2016), however, shows that for the country as a whole, the cumulative rainfall during this year&amp;rsquo;s monsoon upto 7 September has been 4 percent below the Long Period Average (LPA). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same document shows that the cumulative rainfall during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions north-west India and central India have been 2 percent and 3 percent above the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cumulative rainfall during the span 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions south Peninsula and east &amp;amp; north-east India have been 11 percent and 14 percent below the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chart 1: Monsoon Rainfall (mm) received by various states and UTs during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Chart%201%20Monsoon%20Rainfall%20during%201%20June%20to%207%20Sep%202016.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;Chart 1 Rainfall&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;417&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The chart-1 shows that excessive monsoon rainfall was received by east Madhya Pradesh, west Madhya Pradesh, east Rajasthan, west Rajasthan and Haryana during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016. Deficient monsoon rainfall took place in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, parts of north-east, coastal Karnataka and parts of Gujarat &amp;amp; Daman.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The chart-2 shows the distribution of cumulative rainfall received by the country from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chart 2: Distribution of Cumulative Rainfall (mm) for the country (from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Chart%202%20Cumulative%20Distribution%20of%20Rainfall%20from%201%20June%20to%2011%20September%202016.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Chart 2&quot; width=&quot;225&quot; height=&quot;79&quot; /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt; India Meteorological Department, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in&quot; title=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in&quot;&gt;www.imd.gov.in&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the Central Water Commission, the live water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on 8 September, 2016 has been 108.104 BCM, which is 69 percent of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs. The live storage available in 91 reservoirs as per the 8 September, 2016 Bulletin is 117 percent of the live storage of corresponding period of last year and 97 percent of storage of average of last ten years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;References&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot; title=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Press release: Consumer Price Index numbers on Base 2012=100 for Rural, Urban and Combined for the month of August 2016, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, 12 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf&quot; title=&quot;http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;India Meteorological Department press releases,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php&quot; title=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php&quot;&gt;http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country (week ending 8 September, 2016), Central Water Commission, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for Kharif Crops of 2016-17 season, Press Information Bureau/ Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), 1 June, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856&quot; title=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall, India Meteorological Department, 12 April, 2016, Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot; title=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inflation down, RBI rate cut hopes up -Asit Ranjan Mishra, Livemint.com, 13 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html&quot; 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                <br /><div align="justify">A fall in the rate of inflation <em>(on point to point basis) </em>in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place during recent months in the agricultural sector, which is expected to further cool off food prices in the near future. <br /><br />A document from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare released in September 2016 shows that there has been an increase in the gross area sown under rice, pulses and coarse cereals during <em>kharif</em> 2016-17 vis-&agrave;-vis the same season last year.<br /><br />This agriculture year's <em>kharif</em> cropping season, which is between July and October during the south-west monsoon, has seen a rise by 4.2 percent in total sown area vis-&agrave;-vis the same period in 2015-16, as per the latest available data. The total sown area as on 9 September, 2016, as per reports received by the Ministry of Agriculture from various states, stands at 105.4 million hectares as compared to 101.2 million hectares in 2015-16 <em>kharif</em> season. Please check table-1. <br /><br /><strong>Table 1: Gross sown area under major crops (million hectares) during <em>kharif </em>season of various years<br /></strong></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><img src="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Table%201%20Gross%20area%20under%20major%20crops%20(million%20hectares)%20during%20kharif%20season%20of%20various%20years.jpg" alt="Area sown under various crops" width="273" height="87" /> <br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><em><strong>Source: </strong>1. Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please <a href="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf" title="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf">click here</a> to access<br /></em><br /><em>2. Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh&nbsp;hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, dated 9 September, 2016, please <a href="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657" title="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657">click here</a> to access<br /></em><br /><em><strong>Note: </strong>The data on gross sown area under various crops (during kharif) from 2009-10 to 2014-15 has been taken from Economic Survey 2015-16 <br /></em><br />Since the <em>kharif</em> cropping season (and thus <em>kharif </em>sowing) of 2016-17 agriculture year is not yet over (at the time of writing the present newsalert), the estimates of gross sown area under various crops in this season might further increase over the coming days. . &nbsp;<br /><br />The increase in sown area under various crops in the <em>kharif </em>season of 2016-17 could be attributed to the rise in minimum support prices that were declared recently for crops like paddy, coarse cereals, pulses, oilseeds and cotton. Normal to excessive monsoon rainfall received by various parts of the country is another factor, which is responsible for improvement in area sown under various crops during the <em>kharif </em>season as compared to the last year. <br /><br />The total area sown under pulses during this years&rsquo; <em>kharif </em>season has been the highest as compared to the sown area under pulses during the last 7 <em>kharif</em> seasons. It means that the country might see a record production of pulses during the agriculture year 2016-17, if everything goes well. Please check table-1. <br /><br />Similarly, there has been a marginal increase in the area sown under oilseeds from 18.2 million hectares in 2015-16 to 18.7 million hectares in 2016-17 during the <em>kharif </em>season.<br /><br />It must be noted that in June this year, the NDA's Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decided to give a bonus, over and above the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), of Rs. 425/- per quintal for <em>kharif</em> pulses, namely Arhar (Tur), Urad and Moong, a bonus of Rs 200/- per quintal for Sesamum and a bonus of Rs 100/- per quintal for other <em>kharif </em>oilseeds namely, Groundnut-in-shell, Sunflower seed, Soyabean, and Nigerseed.<br /><br />Although the total sown area during <em>kharif </em>season under rice has increased from 37 million hectares to 38 million hectares between 2015-16 and 2016-17, the level at which it stands presently is still lower than what existed in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Please see table-1. <br /><br />It is worth noting that for paddy (common variety), the MSP recommended during 2016-17 <em>kharif</em> season has been Rs. 1470/- per quintal. The MSP for paddy (common variety) during 2015-16 <em>kharif</em> season was Rs. 1410/- per quintal. Similarly, for paddy (Grade A), the MSP recommended has been Rs. 1510/- per quintal during 2016-17 <em>kharif</em> season. The MSP for paddy (Grade A) during 2015-16 <em>kharif</em> season was Rs. 1450/- per quintal.<br /><br />From the table-1, it could be observed that there has been a dip in the gross area under cotton production from 11.5 million hectares to 10.2 million hectares between the <em>kharif </em>seasons of 2015-16 and 2016-17.<br /><br /><strong>Monsoon Rainfall <br /></strong><br />As mentioned earlier, normal to excessive monsoon rainfall in different parts of India is responsible for increased area under <em>kharif </em>cultivation. A document entitled <em>Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall</em> from the India Meteorological Department (dated 12 April, 2016) predicts that the monsoon rainfall during the 2016 monsoon season (June to September) averaged over the country as a whole is likely to be 111% &plusmn; 5% of long period model average (LPMA).<br /><br />The document entitled <em>Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast</em> from the IMD (dated 8 September 2016), however, shows that for the country as a whole, the cumulative rainfall during this year&rsquo;s monsoon upto 7 September has been 4 percent below the Long Period Average (LPA). <br /><br />The same document shows that the cumulative rainfall during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions north-west India and central India have been 2 percent and 3 percent above the LPA, respectively. <br /><br />The cumulative rainfall during the span 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions south Peninsula and east &amp; north-east India have been 11 percent and 14 percent below the LPA, respectively. <br /><br /><strong>Chart 1: Monsoon Rainfall (mm) received by various states and UTs during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 <br /></strong></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><img src="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Chart%201%20Monsoon%20Rainfall%20during%201%20June%20to%207%20Sep%202016.JPG" alt="Chart 1 Rainfall" width="320" height="417" /><br /><br /><em><strong>Source: </strong>Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast">click here</a> to access</em></div><div align="justify"><br />The chart-1 shows that excessive monsoon rainfall was received by east Madhya Pradesh, west Madhya Pradesh, east Rajasthan, west Rajasthan and Haryana during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016. Deficient monsoon rainfall took place in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, parts of north-east, coastal Karnataka and parts of Gujarat &amp; Daman.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br /><br />The chart-2 shows the distribution of cumulative rainfall received by the country from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016. <br /><br /><strong>Chart 2: Distribution of Cumulative Rainfall (mm) for the country (from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016)<br /></strong></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><img src="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Chart%202%20Cumulative%20Distribution%20of%20Rainfall%20from%201%20June%20to%2011%20September%202016.jpg" alt="Chart 2" width="225" height="79" />&nbsp;</div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><em><strong>Source:</strong> India Meteorological Department, <a href="http://www.imd.gov.in" title="http://www.imd.gov.in">www.imd.gov.in</a><br /></em><br />According to the Central Water Commission, the live water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on 8 September, 2016 has been 108.104 BCM, which is 69 percent of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs. The live storage available in 91 reservoirs as per the 8 September, 2016 Bulletin is 117 percent of the live storage of corresponding period of last year and 97 percent of storage of average of last ten years.<br /><br /><strong><em>References<br /></em></strong><br />Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 9 September, 2016, please <a href="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657" title="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657">click here</a> to access<br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify">Press release: Consumer Price Index numbers on Base 2012=100 for Rural, Urban and Combined for the month of August 2016, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, 12 September, 2016, please <a href="http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf" title="http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast">click here</a> to access<br /><br />India Meteorological Department press releases,<br /><a href="http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php" title="http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php">http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php</a> <br /><br />Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country (week ending 8 September, 2016), Central Water Commission, please <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for Kharif Crops of 2016-17 season, Press Information Bureau/ Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), 1 June, 2016, please <a href="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856" title="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856">click here</a> to access </div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify">Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall, India Meteorological Department, 12 April, 2016, Please <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf" title="Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf" title="Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please <a href="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf" title="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Inflation down, RBI rate cut hopes up -Asit Ranjan Mishra, Livemint.com, 13 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html" title="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Kharif crop planting jumps 4% year on year -Madhvi Sally, The Economic Times, 9 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html" title="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html">click here </a>to access<br /><br />Kharif sowing till date 4.2 per cent higher than last year, The Hindu Business Line, 9 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html" title="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html">click here</a> to access<br /><br /><br /><strong>Image Courtesy: Himanshu Joshi</strong></div>               </font>
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A fall in the rate of inflation &lt;em&gt;(on point to point basis) &lt;/em&gt;in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place during recent months in the agricultural sector, which is expected to further cool off food prices in the near future. &lt;br /&gt;
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A document from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare released in September 2016 shows that there has been an increase in the gross area sown under rice, pulses and coarse cereals during &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; 2016-17 vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same season last year.&lt;br /&gt;
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This agriculture year&#039;s &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season, which is between July and October during the south-west monsoon, has seen a rise by 4.2 percent in total sown area vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same period in 2015-16, as per the latest available data. The total sown area as on 9 September, 2016, as per reports received by the Ministry of Agriculture from various states, stands at 105.4 million hectares as compared to 101.2 million hectares in 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Table 1: Gross sown area under major crops (million hectares) during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of various years&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;1. Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;2. Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh&amp;nbsp;
hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, dated 9 
September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: &lt;/strong&gt;The data on gross sown area under various crops (during kharif) from 2009-10 to 2014-15 has been taken from Economic Survey 2015-16 &lt;br /&gt;
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Since the &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season (and thus &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;sowing) of 2016-17 agriculture year is not yet over (at the time of writing the present newsalert), the estimates of gross sown area under various crops in this season might further increase over the coming days. . &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
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The increase in sown area under various crops in the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of 2016-17 could be attributed to the rise in minimum support prices that were declared recently for crops like paddy, coarse cereals, pulses, oilseeds and cotton. Normal to excessive monsoon rainfall received by various parts of the country is another factor, which is responsible for improvement in area sown under various crops during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season as compared to the last year. &lt;br /&gt;
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The total area sown under pulses during this years&amp;rsquo; &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season has been the highest as compared to the sown area under pulses during the last 7 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; seasons. It means that the country might see a record production of pulses during the agriculture year 2016-17, if everything goes well. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;
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Similarly, there has been a marginal increase in the area sown under oilseeds from 18.2 million hectares in 2015-16 to 18.7 million hectares in 2016-17 during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season.&lt;br /&gt;
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It must be noted that in June this year, the NDA&#039;s Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decided to give a bonus, over and above the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), of Rs. 425/- per quintal for &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; pulses, namely Arhar (Tur), Urad and Moong, a bonus of Rs 200/- per quintal for Sesamum and a bonus of Rs 100/- per quintal for other &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;oilseeds namely, Groundnut-in-shell, Sunflower seed, Soyabean, and Nigerseed.&lt;br /&gt;
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Although the total sown area during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season under rice has increased from 37 million hectares to 38 million hectares between 2015-16 and 2016-17, the level at which it stands presently is still lower than what existed in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Please see table-1. &lt;br /&gt;
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It is worth noting that for paddy (common variety), the MSP recommended during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season has been Rs. 1470/- per quintal. The MSP for paddy (common variety) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1410/- per quintal. Similarly, for paddy (Grade A), the MSP recommended has been Rs. 1510/- per quintal during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. The MSP for paddy (Grade A) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1450/- per quintal.&lt;br /&gt;
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From the table-1, it could be observed that there has been a dip in the gross area under cotton production from 11.5 million hectares to 10.2 million hectares between the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;seasons of 2015-16 and 2016-17.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Monsoon Rainfall &lt;br /&gt;
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As mentioned earlier, normal to excessive monsoon rainfall in different parts of India is responsible for increased area under &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;cultivation. A document entitled &lt;em&gt;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&lt;/em&gt; from the India Meteorological Department (dated 12 April, 2016) predicts that the monsoon rainfall during the 2016 monsoon season (June to September) averaged over the country as a whole is likely to be 111% &amp;plusmn; 5% of long period model average (LPMA).&lt;br /&gt;
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The document entitled &lt;em&gt;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&lt;/em&gt; from the IMD (dated 8 September 2016), however, shows that for the country as a whole, the cumulative rainfall during this year&amp;rsquo;s monsoon upto 7 September has been 4 percent below the Long Period Average (LPA). &lt;br /&gt;
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The same document shows that the cumulative rainfall during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions north-west India and central India have been 2 percent and 3 percent above the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
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The cumulative rainfall during the span 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions south Peninsula and east &amp;amp; north-east India have been 11 percent and 14 percent below the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Chart 1: Monsoon Rainfall (mm) received by various states and UTs during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;/em&gt;
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The chart-1 shows that excessive monsoon rainfall was received by east Madhya Pradesh, west Madhya Pradesh, east Rajasthan, west Rajasthan and Haryana during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016. Deficient monsoon rainfall took place in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, parts of north-east, coastal Karnataka and parts of Gujarat &amp;amp; Daman.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
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The chart-2 shows the distribution of cumulative rainfall received by the country from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Chart 2: Distribution of Cumulative Rainfall (mm) for the country (from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016)&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img src=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/Chart%202%20Cumulative%20Distribution%20of%20Rainfall%20from%201%20June%20to%2011%20September%202016.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Chart 2&quot; width=&quot;225&quot; height=&quot;79&quot; /&gt;&amp;nbsp;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt; India Meteorological Department, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in&quot;&gt;www.imd.gov.in&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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According to the Central Water Commission, the live water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on 8 September, 2016 has been 108.104 BCM, which is 69 percent of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs. The live storage available in 91 reservoirs as per the 8 September, 2016 Bulletin is 117 percent of the live storage of corresponding period of last year and 97 percent of storage of average of last ten years.&lt;br /&gt;
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Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Press release: Consumer Price Index numbers on Base 2012=100 for Rural, Urban and Combined for the month of August 2016, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, 12 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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India Meteorological Department press releases,&lt;br /&gt;
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Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country (week ending 8 September, 2016), Central Water Commission, please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for Kharif Crops of 2016-17 season, Press Information Bureau/ Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), 1 June, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access 
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Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall, India Meteorological Department, 12 April, 2016, Please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Inflation down, RBI rate cut hopes up -Asit Ranjan Mishra, Livemint.com, 13 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;../latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Kharif crop planting jumps 4% year on year -Madhvi Sally, The Economic Times, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;../latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html&quot;&gt;click here &lt;/a&gt;to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Kharif sowing till date 4.2 per cent higher than last year, The Hindu Business Line, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;../latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;A fall in the rate of inflation &lt;em&gt;(on point to point basis) &lt;/em&gt;in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place during recent months in the agricultural sector, which is expected to further cool off food prices in the near future. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A document from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare released in September 2016 shows that there has been an increase in the gross area sown under rice, pulses and coarse cereals during &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; 2016-17 vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same season last year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This agriculture year&#039;s &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season, which is between July and October during the south-west monsoon, has seen a rise by 4.2 percent in total sown area vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same period in 2015-16, as per the latest available data. The total sown area as on 9 September, 2016, as per reports received by the Ministry of Agriculture from various states, stands at 105.4 million hectares as compared to 101.2 million hectares in 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Table 1: Gross sown area under major crops (million hectares) during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of various years&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Table%201%20Gross%20area%20under%20major%20crops%20(million%20hectares)%20during%20kharif%20season%20of%20various%20years.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Area sown under various crops&quot; width=&quot;273&quot; height=&quot;87&quot; /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;1. Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot; title=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;2. Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh&amp;nbsp;hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, dated 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot; title=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: &lt;/strong&gt;The data on gross sown area under various crops (during kharif) from 2009-10 to 2014-15 has been taken from Economic Survey 2015-16 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season (and thus &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;sowing) of 2016-17 agriculture year is not yet over (at the time of writing the present newsalert), the estimates of gross sown area under various crops in this season might further increase over the coming days. . &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The increase in sown area under various crops in the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of 2016-17 could be attributed to the rise in minimum support prices that were declared recently for crops like paddy, coarse cereals, pulses, oilseeds and cotton. Normal to excessive monsoon rainfall received by various parts of the country is another factor, which is responsible for improvement in area sown under various crops during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season as compared to the last year. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The total area sown under pulses during this years&amp;rsquo; &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season has been the highest as compared to the sown area under pulses during the last 7 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; seasons. It means that the country might see a record production of pulses during the agriculture year 2016-17, if everything goes well. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Similarly, there has been a marginal increase in the area sown under oilseeds from 18.2 million hectares in 2015-16 to 18.7 million hectares in 2016-17 during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It must be noted that in June this year, the NDA&#039;s Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decided to give a bonus, over and above the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), of Rs. 425/- per quintal for &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; pulses, namely Arhar (Tur), Urad and Moong, a bonus of Rs 200/- per quintal for Sesamum and a bonus of Rs 100/- per quintal for other &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;oilseeds namely, Groundnut-in-shell, Sunflower seed, Soyabean, and Nigerseed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although the total sown area during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season under rice has increased from 37 million hectares to 38 million hectares between 2015-16 and 2016-17, the level at which it stands presently is still lower than what existed in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Please see table-1. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is worth noting that for paddy (common variety), the MSP recommended during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season has been Rs. 1470/- per quintal. The MSP for paddy (common variety) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1410/- per quintal. Similarly, for paddy (Grade A), the MSP recommended has been Rs. 1510/- per quintal during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. The MSP for paddy (Grade A) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1450/- per quintal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the table-1, it could be observed that there has been a dip in the gross area under cotton production from 11.5 million hectares to 10.2 million hectares between the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;seasons of 2015-16 and 2016-17.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monsoon Rainfall &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As mentioned earlier, normal to excessive monsoon rainfall in different parts of India is responsible for increased area under &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;cultivation. A document entitled &lt;em&gt;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&lt;/em&gt; from the India Meteorological Department (dated 12 April, 2016) predicts that the monsoon rainfall during the 2016 monsoon season (June to September) averaged over the country as a whole is likely to be 111% &amp;plusmn; 5% of long period model average (LPMA).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The document entitled &lt;em&gt;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&lt;/em&gt; from the IMD (dated 8 September 2016), however, shows that for the country as a whole, the cumulative rainfall during this year&amp;rsquo;s monsoon upto 7 September has been 4 percent below the Long Period Average (LPA). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same document shows that the cumulative rainfall during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions north-west India and central India have been 2 percent and 3 percent above the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cumulative rainfall during the span 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions south Peninsula and east &amp;amp; north-east India have been 11 percent and 14 percent below the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chart 1: Monsoon Rainfall (mm) received by various states and UTs during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Chart%201%20Monsoon%20Rainfall%20during%201%20June%20to%207%20Sep%202016.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;Chart 1 Rainfall&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;417&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The chart-1 shows that excessive monsoon rainfall was received by east Madhya Pradesh, west Madhya Pradesh, east Rajasthan, west Rajasthan and Haryana during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016. Deficient monsoon rainfall took place in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, parts of north-east, coastal Karnataka and parts of Gujarat &amp;amp; Daman.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The chart-2 shows the distribution of cumulative rainfall received by the country from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chart 2: Distribution of Cumulative Rainfall (mm) for the country (from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Chart%202%20Cumulative%20Distribution%20of%20Rainfall%20from%201%20June%20to%2011%20September%202016.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Chart 2&quot; width=&quot;225&quot; height=&quot;79&quot; /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt; India Meteorological Department, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in&quot; title=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in&quot;&gt;www.imd.gov.in&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the Central Water Commission, the live water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on 8 September, 2016 has been 108.104 BCM, which is 69 percent of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs. The live storage available in 91 reservoirs as per the 8 September, 2016 Bulletin is 117 percent of the live storage of corresponding period of last year and 97 percent of storage of average of last ten years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;References&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot; title=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Press release: Consumer Price Index numbers on Base 2012=100 for Rural, Urban and Combined for the month of August 2016, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, 12 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf&quot; title=&quot;http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;India Meteorological Department press releases,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php&quot; title=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php&quot;&gt;http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country (week ending 8 September, 2016), Central Water Commission, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for Kharif Crops of 2016-17 season, Press Information Bureau/ Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), 1 June, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856&quot; title=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall, India Meteorological Department, 12 April, 2016, Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot; title=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inflation down, RBI rate cut hopes up -Asit Ranjan Mishra, Livemint.com, 13 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kharif crop planting jumps 4% year on year -Madhvi Sally, The Economic Times, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html&quot;&gt;click here &lt;/a&gt;to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kharif sowing till date 4.2 per cent higher than last year, The Hindu Business Line, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; 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	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Record increase in sown area under pulses during kharif 2016-17, shows latest data&#039;,
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A fall in the rate of inflation &lt;em&gt;(on point to point basis) &lt;/em&gt;in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place during recent months in the agricultural sector, which is expected to further cool off food prices in the near future. &lt;br /&gt;
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A document from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare released in September 2016 shows that there has been an increase in the gross area sown under rice, pulses and coarse cereals during &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; 2016-17 vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same season last year.&lt;br /&gt;
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This agriculture year&#039;s &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season, which is between July and October during the south-west monsoon, has seen a rise by 4.2 percent in total sown area vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same period in 2015-16, as per the latest available data. The total sown area as on 9 September, 2016, as per reports received by the Ministry of Agriculture from various states, stands at 105.4 million hectares as compared to 101.2 million hectares in 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Table 1: Gross sown area under major crops (million hectares) during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of various years&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;1. Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;2. Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh&amp;nbsp;
hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, dated 9 
September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: &lt;/strong&gt;The data on gross sown area under various crops (during kharif) from 2009-10 to 2014-15 has been taken from Economic Survey 2015-16 &lt;br /&gt;
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Since the &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season (and thus &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;sowing) of 2016-17 agriculture year is not yet over (at the time of writing the present newsalert), the estimates of gross sown area under various crops in this season might further increase over the coming days. . &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
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The increase in sown area under various crops in the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of 2016-17 could be attributed to the rise in minimum support prices that were declared recently for crops like paddy, coarse cereals, pulses, oilseeds and cotton. Normal to excessive monsoon rainfall received by various parts of the country is another factor, which is responsible for improvement in area sown under various crops during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season as compared to the last year. &lt;br /&gt;
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The total area sown under pulses during this years&amp;rsquo; &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season has been the highest as compared to the sown area under pulses during the last 7 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; seasons. It means that the country might see a record production of pulses during the agriculture year 2016-17, if everything goes well. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;
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Similarly, there has been a marginal increase in the area sown under oilseeds from 18.2 million hectares in 2015-16 to 18.7 million hectares in 2016-17 during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season.&lt;br /&gt;
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It must be noted that in June this year, the NDA&#039;s Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decided to give a bonus, over and above the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), of Rs. 425/- per quintal for &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; pulses, namely Arhar (Tur), Urad and Moong, a bonus of Rs 200/- per quintal for Sesamum and a bonus of Rs 100/- per quintal for other &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;oilseeds namely, Groundnut-in-shell, Sunflower seed, Soyabean, and Nigerseed.&lt;br /&gt;
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Although the total sown area during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season under rice has increased from 37 million hectares to 38 million hectares between 2015-16 and 2016-17, the level at which it stands presently is still lower than what existed in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Please see table-1. &lt;br /&gt;
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It is worth noting that for paddy (common variety), the MSP recommended during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season has been Rs. 1470/- per quintal. The MSP for paddy (common variety) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1410/- per quintal. Similarly, for paddy (Grade A), the MSP recommended has been Rs. 1510/- per quintal during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. The MSP for paddy (Grade A) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1450/- per quintal.&lt;br /&gt;
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From the table-1, it could be observed that there has been a dip in the gross area under cotton production from 11.5 million hectares to 10.2 million hectares between the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;seasons of 2015-16 and 2016-17.&lt;br /&gt;
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As mentioned earlier, normal to excessive monsoon rainfall in different parts of India is responsible for increased area under &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;cultivation. A document entitled &lt;em&gt;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&lt;/em&gt; from the India Meteorological Department (dated 12 April, 2016) predicts that the monsoon rainfall during the 2016 monsoon season (June to September) averaged over the country as a whole is likely to be 111% &amp;plusmn; 5% of long period model average (LPMA).&lt;br /&gt;
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The document entitled &lt;em&gt;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&lt;/em&gt; from the IMD (dated 8 September 2016), however, shows that for the country as a whole, the cumulative rainfall during this year&amp;rsquo;s monsoon upto 7 September has been 4 percent below the Long Period Average (LPA). &lt;br /&gt;
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The same document shows that the cumulative rainfall during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions north-west India and central India have been 2 percent and 3 percent above the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
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The cumulative rainfall during the span 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions south Peninsula and east &amp;amp; north-east India have been 11 percent and 14 percent below the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Chart 1: Monsoon Rainfall (mm) received by various states and UTs during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;/em&gt;
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The chart-1 shows that excessive monsoon rainfall was received by east Madhya Pradesh, west Madhya Pradesh, east Rajasthan, west Rajasthan and Haryana during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016. Deficient monsoon rainfall took place in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, parts of north-east, coastal Karnataka and parts of Gujarat &amp;amp; Daman.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
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The chart-2 shows the distribution of cumulative rainfall received by the country from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Chart 2: Distribution of Cumulative Rainfall (mm) for the country (from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016)&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt; India Meteorological Department, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in&quot;&gt;www.imd.gov.in&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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According to the Central Water Commission, the live water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on 8 September, 2016 has been 108.104 BCM, which is 69 percent of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs. The live storage available in 91 reservoirs as per the 8 September, 2016 Bulletin is 117 percent of the live storage of corresponding period of last year and 97 percent of storage of average of last ten years.&lt;br /&gt;
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Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Press release: Consumer Price Index numbers on Base 2012=100 for Rural, Urban and Combined for the month of August 2016, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, 12 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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India Meteorological Department press releases,&lt;br /&gt;
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Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country (week ending 8 September, 2016), Central Water Commission, please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for Kharif Crops of 2016-17 season, Press Information Bureau/ Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), 1 June, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access 
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Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall, India Meteorological Department, 12 April, 2016, Please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Inflation down, RBI rate cut hopes up -Asit Ranjan Mishra, Livemint.com, 13 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;../latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Kharif crop planting jumps 4% year on year -Madhvi Sally, The Economic Times, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;../latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html&quot;&gt;click here &lt;/a&gt;to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Kharif sowing till date 4.2 per cent higher than last year, The Hindu Business Line, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;../latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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A fall in the rate of inflation (on point to point basis) in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;A fall in the rate of inflation &lt;em&gt;(on point to point basis) &lt;/em&gt;in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place during recent months in the agricultural sector, which is expected to further cool off food prices in the near future. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A document from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare released in September 2016 shows that there has been an increase in the gross area sown under rice, pulses and coarse cereals during &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; 2016-17 vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same season last year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This agriculture year&#039;s &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season, which is between July and October during the south-west monsoon, has seen a rise by 4.2 percent in total sown area vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same period in 2015-16, as per the latest available data. The total sown area as on 9 September, 2016, as per reports received by the Ministry of Agriculture from various states, stands at 105.4 million hectares as compared to 101.2 million hectares in 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Table 1: Gross sown area under major crops (million hectares) during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of various years&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Table%201%20Gross%20area%20under%20major%20crops%20(million%20hectares)%20during%20kharif%20season%20of%20various%20years.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Area sown under various crops&quot; width=&quot;273&quot; height=&quot;87&quot; /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;1. Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot; title=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;2. Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh&amp;nbsp;hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, dated 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot; title=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: &lt;/strong&gt;The data on gross sown area under various crops (during kharif) from 2009-10 to 2014-15 has been taken from Economic Survey 2015-16 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season (and thus &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;sowing) of 2016-17 agriculture year is not yet over (at the time of writing the present newsalert), the estimates of gross sown area under various crops in this season might further increase over the coming days. . &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The increase in sown area under various crops in the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of 2016-17 could be attributed to the rise in minimum support prices that were declared recently for crops like paddy, coarse cereals, pulses, oilseeds and cotton. Normal to excessive monsoon rainfall received by various parts of the country is another factor, which is responsible for improvement in area sown under various crops during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season as compared to the last year. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The total area sown under pulses during this years&amp;rsquo; &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season has been the highest as compared to the sown area under pulses during the last 7 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; seasons. It means that the country might see a record production of pulses during the agriculture year 2016-17, if everything goes well. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Similarly, there has been a marginal increase in the area sown under oilseeds from 18.2 million hectares in 2015-16 to 18.7 million hectares in 2016-17 during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It must be noted that in June this year, the NDA&#039;s Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decided to give a bonus, over and above the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), of Rs. 425/- per quintal for &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; pulses, namely Arhar (Tur), Urad and Moong, a bonus of Rs 200/- per quintal for Sesamum and a bonus of Rs 100/- per quintal for other &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;oilseeds namely, Groundnut-in-shell, Sunflower seed, Soyabean, and Nigerseed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although the total sown area during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season under rice has increased from 37 million hectares to 38 million hectares between 2015-16 and 2016-17, the level at which it stands presently is still lower than what existed in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Please see table-1. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is worth noting that for paddy (common variety), the MSP recommended during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season has been Rs. 1470/- per quintal. The MSP for paddy (common variety) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1410/- per quintal. Similarly, for paddy (Grade A), the MSP recommended has been Rs. 1510/- per quintal during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. The MSP for paddy (Grade A) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1450/- per quintal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the table-1, it could be observed that there has been a dip in the gross area under cotton production from 11.5 million hectares to 10.2 million hectares between the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;seasons of 2015-16 and 2016-17.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monsoon Rainfall &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As mentioned earlier, normal to excessive monsoon rainfall in different parts of India is responsible for increased area under &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;cultivation. A document entitled &lt;em&gt;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&lt;/em&gt; from the India Meteorological Department (dated 12 April, 2016) predicts that the monsoon rainfall during the 2016 monsoon season (June to September) averaged over the country as a whole is likely to be 111% &amp;plusmn; 5% of long period model average (LPMA).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The document entitled &lt;em&gt;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&lt;/em&gt; from the IMD (dated 8 September 2016), however, shows that for the country as a whole, the cumulative rainfall during this year&amp;rsquo;s monsoon upto 7 September has been 4 percent below the Long Period Average (LPA). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same document shows that the cumulative rainfall during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions north-west India and central India have been 2 percent and 3 percent above the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cumulative rainfall during the span 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions south Peninsula and east &amp;amp; north-east India have been 11 percent and 14 percent below the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chart 1: Monsoon Rainfall (mm) received by various states and UTs during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Chart%201%20Monsoon%20Rainfall%20during%201%20June%20to%207%20Sep%202016.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;Chart 1 Rainfall&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;417&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The chart-1 shows that excessive monsoon rainfall was received by east Madhya Pradesh, west Madhya Pradesh, east Rajasthan, west Rajasthan and Haryana during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016. Deficient monsoon rainfall took place in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, parts of north-east, coastal Karnataka and parts of Gujarat &amp;amp; Daman.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The chart-2 shows the distribution of cumulative rainfall received by the country from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chart 2: Distribution of Cumulative Rainfall (mm) for the country (from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Chart%202%20Cumulative%20Distribution%20of%20Rainfall%20from%201%20June%20to%2011%20September%202016.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Chart 2&quot; width=&quot;225&quot; height=&quot;79&quot; /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt; India Meteorological Department, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in&quot; title=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in&quot;&gt;www.imd.gov.in&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the Central Water Commission, the live water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on 8 September, 2016 has been 108.104 BCM, which is 69 percent of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs. The live storage available in 91 reservoirs as per the 8 September, 2016 Bulletin is 117 percent of the live storage of corresponding period of last year and 97 percent of storage of average of last ten years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;References&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot; title=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Press release: Consumer Price Index numbers on Base 2012=100 for Rural, Urban and Combined for the month of August 2016, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, 12 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf&quot; title=&quot;http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;India Meteorological Department press releases,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php&quot; title=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php&quot;&gt;http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country (week ending 8 September, 2016), Central Water Commission, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for Kharif Crops of 2016-17 season, Press Information Bureau/ Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), 1 June, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856&quot; title=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall, India Meteorological Department, 12 April, 2016, Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot; title=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inflation down, RBI rate cut hopes up -Asit Ranjan Mishra, Livemint.com, 13 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html&quot; 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                <br /><div align="justify">A fall in the rate of inflation <em>(on point to point basis) </em>in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place during recent months in the agricultural sector, which is expected to further cool off food prices in the near future. <br /><br />A document from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare released in September 2016 shows that there has been an increase in the gross area sown under rice, pulses and coarse cereals during <em>kharif</em> 2016-17 vis-&agrave;-vis the same season last year.<br /><br />This agriculture year's <em>kharif</em> cropping season, which is between July and October during the south-west monsoon, has seen a rise by 4.2 percent in total sown area vis-&agrave;-vis the same period in 2015-16, as per the latest available data. The total sown area as on 9 September, 2016, as per reports received by the Ministry of Agriculture from various states, stands at 105.4 million hectares as compared to 101.2 million hectares in 2015-16 <em>kharif</em> season. Please check table-1. <br /><br /><strong>Table 1: Gross sown area under major crops (million hectares) during <em>kharif </em>season of various years<br /></strong></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><img src="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Table%201%20Gross%20area%20under%20major%20crops%20(million%20hectares)%20during%20kharif%20season%20of%20various%20years.jpg" alt="Area sown under various crops" width="273" height="87" /> <br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><em><strong>Source: </strong>1. Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please <a href="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf" title="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf">click here</a> to access<br /></em><br /><em>2. Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh&nbsp;hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, dated 9 September, 2016, please <a href="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657" title="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657">click here</a> to access<br /></em><br /><em><strong>Note: </strong>The data on gross sown area under various crops (during kharif) from 2009-10 to 2014-15 has been taken from Economic Survey 2015-16 <br /></em><br />Since the <em>kharif</em> cropping season (and thus <em>kharif </em>sowing) of 2016-17 agriculture year is not yet over (at the time of writing the present newsalert), the estimates of gross sown area under various crops in this season might further increase over the coming days. . &nbsp;<br /><br />The increase in sown area under various crops in the <em>kharif </em>season of 2016-17 could be attributed to the rise in minimum support prices that were declared recently for crops like paddy, coarse cereals, pulses, oilseeds and cotton. Normal to excessive monsoon rainfall received by various parts of the country is another factor, which is responsible for improvement in area sown under various crops during the <em>kharif </em>season as compared to the last year. <br /><br />The total area sown under pulses during this years&rsquo; <em>kharif </em>season has been the highest as compared to the sown area under pulses during the last 7 <em>kharif</em> seasons. It means that the country might see a record production of pulses during the agriculture year 2016-17, if everything goes well. Please check table-1. <br /><br />Similarly, there has been a marginal increase in the area sown under oilseeds from 18.2 million hectares in 2015-16 to 18.7 million hectares in 2016-17 during the <em>kharif </em>season.<br /><br />It must be noted that in June this year, the NDA's Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decided to give a bonus, over and above the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), of Rs. 425/- per quintal for <em>kharif</em> pulses, namely Arhar (Tur), Urad and Moong, a bonus of Rs 200/- per quintal for Sesamum and a bonus of Rs 100/- per quintal for other <em>kharif </em>oilseeds namely, Groundnut-in-shell, Sunflower seed, Soyabean, and Nigerseed.<br /><br />Although the total sown area during <em>kharif </em>season under rice has increased from 37 million hectares to 38 million hectares between 2015-16 and 2016-17, the level at which it stands presently is still lower than what existed in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Please see table-1. <br /><br />It is worth noting that for paddy (common variety), the MSP recommended during 2016-17 <em>kharif</em> season has been Rs. 1470/- per quintal. The MSP for paddy (common variety) during 2015-16 <em>kharif</em> season was Rs. 1410/- per quintal. Similarly, for paddy (Grade A), the MSP recommended has been Rs. 1510/- per quintal during 2016-17 <em>kharif</em> season. The MSP for paddy (Grade A) during 2015-16 <em>kharif</em> season was Rs. 1450/- per quintal.<br /><br />From the table-1, it could be observed that there has been a dip in the gross area under cotton production from 11.5 million hectares to 10.2 million hectares between the <em>kharif </em>seasons of 2015-16 and 2016-17.<br /><br /><strong>Monsoon Rainfall <br /></strong><br />As mentioned earlier, normal to excessive monsoon rainfall in different parts of India is responsible for increased area under <em>kharif </em>cultivation. A document entitled <em>Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall</em> from the India Meteorological Department (dated 12 April, 2016) predicts that the monsoon rainfall during the 2016 monsoon season (June to September) averaged over the country as a whole is likely to be 111% &plusmn; 5% of long period model average (LPMA).<br /><br />The document entitled <em>Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast</em> from the IMD (dated 8 September 2016), however, shows that for the country as a whole, the cumulative rainfall during this year&rsquo;s monsoon upto 7 September has been 4 percent below the Long Period Average (LPA). <br /><br />The same document shows that the cumulative rainfall during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions north-west India and central India have been 2 percent and 3 percent above the LPA, respectively. <br /><br />The cumulative rainfall during the span 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions south Peninsula and east &amp; north-east India have been 11 percent and 14 percent below the LPA, respectively. <br /><br /><strong>Chart 1: Monsoon Rainfall (mm) received by various states and UTs during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 <br /></strong></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><img src="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Chart%201%20Monsoon%20Rainfall%20during%201%20June%20to%207%20Sep%202016.JPG" alt="Chart 1 Rainfall" width="320" height="417" /><br /><br /><em><strong>Source: </strong>Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast">click here</a> to access</em></div><div align="justify"><br />The chart-1 shows that excessive monsoon rainfall was received by east Madhya Pradesh, west Madhya Pradesh, east Rajasthan, west Rajasthan and Haryana during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016. Deficient monsoon rainfall took place in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, parts of north-east, coastal Karnataka and parts of Gujarat &amp; Daman.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br /><br />The chart-2 shows the distribution of cumulative rainfall received by the country from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016. <br /><br /><strong>Chart 2: Distribution of Cumulative Rainfall (mm) for the country (from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016)<br /></strong></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><img src="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Chart%202%20Cumulative%20Distribution%20of%20Rainfall%20from%201%20June%20to%2011%20September%202016.jpg" alt="Chart 2" width="225" height="79" />&nbsp;</div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><em><strong>Source:</strong> India Meteorological Department, <a href="http://www.imd.gov.in" title="http://www.imd.gov.in">www.imd.gov.in</a><br /></em><br />According to the Central Water Commission, the live water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on 8 September, 2016 has been 108.104 BCM, which is 69 percent of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs. The live storage available in 91 reservoirs as per the 8 September, 2016 Bulletin is 117 percent of the live storage of corresponding period of last year and 97 percent of storage of average of last ten years.<br /><br /><strong><em>References<br /></em></strong><br />Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 9 September, 2016, please <a href="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657" title="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657">click here</a> to access<br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify">Press release: Consumer Price Index numbers on Base 2012=100 for Rural, Urban and Combined for the month of August 2016, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, 12 September, 2016, please <a href="http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf" title="http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast">click here</a> to access<br /><br />India Meteorological Department press releases,<br /><a href="http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php" title="http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php">http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php</a> <br /><br />Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country (week ending 8 September, 2016), Central Water Commission, please <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for Kharif Crops of 2016-17 season, Press Information Bureau/ Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), 1 June, 2016, please <a href="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856" title="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856">click here</a> to access </div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify">Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall, India Meteorological Department, 12 April, 2016, Please <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf" title="Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf" title="Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please <a href="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf" title="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Inflation down, RBI rate cut hopes up -Asit Ranjan Mishra, Livemint.com, 13 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html" title="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Kharif crop planting jumps 4% year on year -Madhvi Sally, The Economic Times, 9 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html" title="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html">click here </a>to access<br /><br />Kharif sowing till date 4.2 per cent higher than last year, The Hindu Business Line, 9 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html" title="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html">click here</a> to access<br /><br /><br /><strong>Image Courtesy: Himanshu Joshi</strong></div>               </font>
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A fall in the rate of inflation &lt;em&gt;(on point to point basis) &lt;/em&gt;in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place during recent months in the agricultural sector, which is expected to further cool off food prices in the near future. &lt;br /&gt;
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A document from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare released in September 2016 shows that there has been an increase in the gross area sown under rice, pulses and coarse cereals during &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; 2016-17 vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same season last year.&lt;br /&gt;
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This agriculture year&#039;s &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season, which is between July and October during the south-west monsoon, has seen a rise by 4.2 percent in total sown area vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same period in 2015-16, as per the latest available data. The total sown area as on 9 September, 2016, as per reports received by the Ministry of Agriculture from various states, stands at 105.4 million hectares as compared to 101.2 million hectares in 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Table 1: Gross sown area under major crops (million hectares) during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of various years&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;1. Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;2. Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh&amp;nbsp;
hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, dated 9 
September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: &lt;/strong&gt;The data on gross sown area under various crops (during kharif) from 2009-10 to 2014-15 has been taken from Economic Survey 2015-16 &lt;br /&gt;
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Since the &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season (and thus &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;sowing) of 2016-17 agriculture year is not yet over (at the time of writing the present newsalert), the estimates of gross sown area under various crops in this season might further increase over the coming days. . &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
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The increase in sown area under various crops in the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of 2016-17 could be attributed to the rise in minimum support prices that were declared recently for crops like paddy, coarse cereals, pulses, oilseeds and cotton. Normal to excessive monsoon rainfall received by various parts of the country is another factor, which is responsible for improvement in area sown under various crops during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season as compared to the last year. &lt;br /&gt;
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The total area sown under pulses during this years&amp;rsquo; &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season has been the highest as compared to the sown area under pulses during the last 7 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; seasons. It means that the country might see a record production of pulses during the agriculture year 2016-17, if everything goes well. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;
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Similarly, there has been a marginal increase in the area sown under oilseeds from 18.2 million hectares in 2015-16 to 18.7 million hectares in 2016-17 during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season.&lt;br /&gt;
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It must be noted that in June this year, the NDA&#039;s Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decided to give a bonus, over and above the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), of Rs. 425/- per quintal for &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; pulses, namely Arhar (Tur), Urad and Moong, a bonus of Rs 200/- per quintal for Sesamum and a bonus of Rs 100/- per quintal for other &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;oilseeds namely, Groundnut-in-shell, Sunflower seed, Soyabean, and Nigerseed.&lt;br /&gt;
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Although the total sown area during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season under rice has increased from 37 million hectares to 38 million hectares between 2015-16 and 2016-17, the level at which it stands presently is still lower than what existed in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Please see table-1. &lt;br /&gt;
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It is worth noting that for paddy (common variety), the MSP recommended during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season has been Rs. 1470/- per quintal. The MSP for paddy (common variety) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1410/- per quintal. Similarly, for paddy (Grade A), the MSP recommended has been Rs. 1510/- per quintal during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. The MSP for paddy (Grade A) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1450/- per quintal.&lt;br /&gt;
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From the table-1, it could be observed that there has been a dip in the gross area under cotton production from 11.5 million hectares to 10.2 million hectares between the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;seasons of 2015-16 and 2016-17.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Monsoon Rainfall &lt;br /&gt;
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As mentioned earlier, normal to excessive monsoon rainfall in different parts of India is responsible for increased area under &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;cultivation. A document entitled &lt;em&gt;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&lt;/em&gt; from the India Meteorological Department (dated 12 April, 2016) predicts that the monsoon rainfall during the 2016 monsoon season (June to September) averaged over the country as a whole is likely to be 111% &amp;plusmn; 5% of long period model average (LPMA).&lt;br /&gt;
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The document entitled &lt;em&gt;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&lt;/em&gt; from the IMD (dated 8 September 2016), however, shows that for the country as a whole, the cumulative rainfall during this year&amp;rsquo;s monsoon upto 7 September has been 4 percent below the Long Period Average (LPA). &lt;br /&gt;
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The same document shows that the cumulative rainfall during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions north-west India and central India have been 2 percent and 3 percent above the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
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The cumulative rainfall during the span 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions south Peninsula and east &amp;amp; north-east India have been 11 percent and 14 percent below the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Chart 1: Monsoon Rainfall (mm) received by various states and UTs during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;/em&gt;
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The chart-1 shows that excessive monsoon rainfall was received by east Madhya Pradesh, west Madhya Pradesh, east Rajasthan, west Rajasthan and Haryana during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016. Deficient monsoon rainfall took place in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, parts of north-east, coastal Karnataka and parts of Gujarat &amp;amp; Daman.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
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The chart-2 shows the distribution of cumulative rainfall received by the country from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Chart 2: Distribution of Cumulative Rainfall (mm) for the country (from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016)&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img src=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/Chart%202%20Cumulative%20Distribution%20of%20Rainfall%20from%201%20June%20to%2011%20September%202016.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Chart 2&quot; width=&quot;225&quot; height=&quot;79&quot; /&gt;&amp;nbsp;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt; India Meteorological Department, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in&quot;&gt;www.imd.gov.in&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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According to the Central Water Commission, the live water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on 8 September, 2016 has been 108.104 BCM, which is 69 percent of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs. The live storage available in 91 reservoirs as per the 8 September, 2016 Bulletin is 117 percent of the live storage of corresponding period of last year and 97 percent of storage of average of last ten years.&lt;br /&gt;
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Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Press release: Consumer Price Index numbers on Base 2012=100 for Rural, Urban and Combined for the month of August 2016, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, 12 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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India Meteorological Department press releases,&lt;br /&gt;
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Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country (week ending 8 September, 2016), Central Water Commission, please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for Kharif Crops of 2016-17 season, Press Information Bureau/ Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), 1 June, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access 
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Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall, India Meteorological Department, 12 April, 2016, Please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Inflation down, RBI rate cut hopes up -Asit Ranjan Mishra, Livemint.com, 13 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;../latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Kharif crop planting jumps 4% year on year -Madhvi Sally, The Economic Times, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;../latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html&quot;&gt;click here &lt;/a&gt;to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Kharif sowing till date 4.2 per cent higher than last year, The Hindu Business Line, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;../latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;A fall in the rate of inflation &lt;em&gt;(on point to point basis) &lt;/em&gt;in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place during recent months in the agricultural sector, which is expected to further cool off food prices in the near future. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A document from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare released in September 2016 shows that there has been an increase in the gross area sown under rice, pulses and coarse cereals during &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; 2016-17 vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same season last year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This agriculture year&#039;s &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season, which is between July and October during the south-west monsoon, has seen a rise by 4.2 percent in total sown area vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same period in 2015-16, as per the latest available data. The total sown area as on 9 September, 2016, as per reports received by the Ministry of Agriculture from various states, stands at 105.4 million hectares as compared to 101.2 million hectares in 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Table 1: Gross sown area under major crops (million hectares) during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of various years&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Table%201%20Gross%20area%20under%20major%20crops%20(million%20hectares)%20during%20kharif%20season%20of%20various%20years.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Area sown under various crops&quot; width=&quot;273&quot; height=&quot;87&quot; /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;1. Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot; title=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;2. Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh&amp;nbsp;hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, dated 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot; title=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: &lt;/strong&gt;The data on gross sown area under various crops (during kharif) from 2009-10 to 2014-15 has been taken from Economic Survey 2015-16 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season (and thus &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;sowing) of 2016-17 agriculture year is not yet over (at the time of writing the present newsalert), the estimates of gross sown area under various crops in this season might further increase over the coming days. . &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The increase in sown area under various crops in the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of 2016-17 could be attributed to the rise in minimum support prices that were declared recently for crops like paddy, coarse cereals, pulses, oilseeds and cotton. Normal to excessive monsoon rainfall received by various parts of the country is another factor, which is responsible for improvement in area sown under various crops during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season as compared to the last year. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The total area sown under pulses during this years&amp;rsquo; &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season has been the highest as compared to the sown area under pulses during the last 7 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; seasons. It means that the country might see a record production of pulses during the agriculture year 2016-17, if everything goes well. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Similarly, there has been a marginal increase in the area sown under oilseeds from 18.2 million hectares in 2015-16 to 18.7 million hectares in 2016-17 during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It must be noted that in June this year, the NDA&#039;s Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decided to give a bonus, over and above the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), of Rs. 425/- per quintal for &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; pulses, namely Arhar (Tur), Urad and Moong, a bonus of Rs 200/- per quintal for Sesamum and a bonus of Rs 100/- per quintal for other &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;oilseeds namely, Groundnut-in-shell, Sunflower seed, Soyabean, and Nigerseed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although the total sown area during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season under rice has increased from 37 million hectares to 38 million hectares between 2015-16 and 2016-17, the level at which it stands presently is still lower than what existed in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Please see table-1. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is worth noting that for paddy (common variety), the MSP recommended during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season has been Rs. 1470/- per quintal. The MSP for paddy (common variety) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1410/- per quintal. Similarly, for paddy (Grade A), the MSP recommended has been Rs. 1510/- per quintal during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. The MSP for paddy (Grade A) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1450/- per quintal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the table-1, it could be observed that there has been a dip in the gross area under cotton production from 11.5 million hectares to 10.2 million hectares between the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;seasons of 2015-16 and 2016-17.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monsoon Rainfall &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As mentioned earlier, normal to excessive monsoon rainfall in different parts of India is responsible for increased area under &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;cultivation. A document entitled &lt;em&gt;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&lt;/em&gt; from the India Meteorological Department (dated 12 April, 2016) predicts that the monsoon rainfall during the 2016 monsoon season (June to September) averaged over the country as a whole is likely to be 111% &amp;plusmn; 5% of long period model average (LPMA).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The document entitled &lt;em&gt;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&lt;/em&gt; from the IMD (dated 8 September 2016), however, shows that for the country as a whole, the cumulative rainfall during this year&amp;rsquo;s monsoon upto 7 September has been 4 percent below the Long Period Average (LPA). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same document shows that the cumulative rainfall during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions north-west India and central India have been 2 percent and 3 percent above the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cumulative rainfall during the span 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions south Peninsula and east &amp;amp; north-east India have been 11 percent and 14 percent below the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chart 1: Monsoon Rainfall (mm) received by various states and UTs during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Chart%201%20Monsoon%20Rainfall%20during%201%20June%20to%207%20Sep%202016.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;Chart 1 Rainfall&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;417&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The chart-1 shows that excessive monsoon rainfall was received by east Madhya Pradesh, west Madhya Pradesh, east Rajasthan, west Rajasthan and Haryana during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016. Deficient monsoon rainfall took place in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, parts of north-east, coastal Karnataka and parts of Gujarat &amp;amp; Daman.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The chart-2 shows the distribution of cumulative rainfall received by the country from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chart 2: Distribution of Cumulative Rainfall (mm) for the country (from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Chart%202%20Cumulative%20Distribution%20of%20Rainfall%20from%201%20June%20to%2011%20September%202016.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Chart 2&quot; width=&quot;225&quot; height=&quot;79&quot; /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt; India Meteorological Department, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in&quot; title=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in&quot;&gt;www.imd.gov.in&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the Central Water Commission, the live water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on 8 September, 2016 has been 108.104 BCM, which is 69 percent of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs. The live storage available in 91 reservoirs as per the 8 September, 2016 Bulletin is 117 percent of the live storage of corresponding period of last year and 97 percent of storage of average of last ten years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;References&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot; title=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Press release: Consumer Price Index numbers on Base 2012=100 for Rural, Urban and Combined for the month of August 2016, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, 12 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf&quot; title=&quot;http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;India Meteorological Department press releases,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php&quot; title=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php&quot;&gt;http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country (week ending 8 September, 2016), Central Water Commission, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for Kharif Crops of 2016-17 season, Press Information Bureau/ Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), 1 June, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856&quot; title=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall, India Meteorological Department, 12 April, 2016, Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot; title=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inflation down, RBI rate cut hopes up -Asit Ranjan Mishra, Livemint.com, 13 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kharif crop planting jumps 4% year on year -Madhvi Sally, The Economic Times, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html&quot;&gt;click here &lt;/a&gt;to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kharif sowing till date 4.2 per cent higher than last year, The Hindu Business Line, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; 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	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Record increase in sown area under pulses during kharif 2016-17, shows latest data&#039;,
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A fall in the rate of inflation &lt;em&gt;(on point to point basis) &lt;/em&gt;in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place during recent months in the agricultural sector, which is expected to further cool off food prices in the near future. &lt;br /&gt;
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A document from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare released in September 2016 shows that there has been an increase in the gross area sown under rice, pulses and coarse cereals during &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; 2016-17 vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same season last year.&lt;br /&gt;
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This agriculture year&#039;s &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season, which is between July and October during the south-west monsoon, has seen a rise by 4.2 percent in total sown area vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same period in 2015-16, as per the latest available data. The total sown area as on 9 September, 2016, as per reports received by the Ministry of Agriculture from various states, stands at 105.4 million hectares as compared to 101.2 million hectares in 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Table 1: Gross sown area under major crops (million hectares) during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of various years&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;1. Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;2. Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh&amp;nbsp;
hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, dated 9 
September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: &lt;/strong&gt;The data on gross sown area under various crops (during kharif) from 2009-10 to 2014-15 has been taken from Economic Survey 2015-16 &lt;br /&gt;
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Since the &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season (and thus &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;sowing) of 2016-17 agriculture year is not yet over (at the time of writing the present newsalert), the estimates of gross sown area under various crops in this season might further increase over the coming days. . &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
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The increase in sown area under various crops in the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of 2016-17 could be attributed to the rise in minimum support prices that were declared recently for crops like paddy, coarse cereals, pulses, oilseeds and cotton. Normal to excessive monsoon rainfall received by various parts of the country is another factor, which is responsible for improvement in area sown under various crops during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season as compared to the last year. &lt;br /&gt;
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The total area sown under pulses during this years&amp;rsquo; &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season has been the highest as compared to the sown area under pulses during the last 7 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; seasons. It means that the country might see a record production of pulses during the agriculture year 2016-17, if everything goes well. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;
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Similarly, there has been a marginal increase in the area sown under oilseeds from 18.2 million hectares in 2015-16 to 18.7 million hectares in 2016-17 during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season.&lt;br /&gt;
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It must be noted that in June this year, the NDA&#039;s Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decided to give a bonus, over and above the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), of Rs. 425/- per quintal for &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; pulses, namely Arhar (Tur), Urad and Moong, a bonus of Rs 200/- per quintal for Sesamum and a bonus of Rs 100/- per quintal for other &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;oilseeds namely, Groundnut-in-shell, Sunflower seed, Soyabean, and Nigerseed.&lt;br /&gt;
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Although the total sown area during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season under rice has increased from 37 million hectares to 38 million hectares between 2015-16 and 2016-17, the level at which it stands presently is still lower than what existed in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Please see table-1. &lt;br /&gt;
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It is worth noting that for paddy (common variety), the MSP recommended during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season has been Rs. 1470/- per quintal. The MSP for paddy (common variety) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1410/- per quintal. Similarly, for paddy (Grade A), the MSP recommended has been Rs. 1510/- per quintal during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. The MSP for paddy (Grade A) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1450/- per quintal.&lt;br /&gt;
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From the table-1, it could be observed that there has been a dip in the gross area under cotton production from 11.5 million hectares to 10.2 million hectares between the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;seasons of 2015-16 and 2016-17.&lt;br /&gt;
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As mentioned earlier, normal to excessive monsoon rainfall in different parts of India is responsible for increased area under &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;cultivation. A document entitled &lt;em&gt;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&lt;/em&gt; from the India Meteorological Department (dated 12 April, 2016) predicts that the monsoon rainfall during the 2016 monsoon season (June to September) averaged over the country as a whole is likely to be 111% &amp;plusmn; 5% of long period model average (LPMA).&lt;br /&gt;
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The document entitled &lt;em&gt;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&lt;/em&gt; from the IMD (dated 8 September 2016), however, shows that for the country as a whole, the cumulative rainfall during this year&amp;rsquo;s monsoon upto 7 September has been 4 percent below the Long Period Average (LPA). &lt;br /&gt;
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The same document shows that the cumulative rainfall during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions north-west India and central India have been 2 percent and 3 percent above the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
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The cumulative rainfall during the span 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions south Peninsula and east &amp;amp; north-east India have been 11 percent and 14 percent below the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Chart 1: Monsoon Rainfall (mm) received by various states and UTs during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;/em&gt;
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The chart-1 shows that excessive monsoon rainfall was received by east Madhya Pradesh, west Madhya Pradesh, east Rajasthan, west Rajasthan and Haryana during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016. Deficient monsoon rainfall took place in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, parts of north-east, coastal Karnataka and parts of Gujarat &amp;amp; Daman.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
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The chart-2 shows the distribution of cumulative rainfall received by the country from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Chart 2: Distribution of Cumulative Rainfall (mm) for the country (from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016)&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt; India Meteorological Department, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in&quot;&gt;www.imd.gov.in&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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According to the Central Water Commission, the live water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on 8 September, 2016 has been 108.104 BCM, which is 69 percent of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs. The live storage available in 91 reservoirs as per the 8 September, 2016 Bulletin is 117 percent of the live storage of corresponding period of last year and 97 percent of storage of average of last ten years.&lt;br /&gt;
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Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Press release: Consumer Price Index numbers on Base 2012=100 for Rural, Urban and Combined for the month of August 2016, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, 12 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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India Meteorological Department press releases,&lt;br /&gt;
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Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country (week ending 8 September, 2016), Central Water Commission, please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for Kharif Crops of 2016-17 season, Press Information Bureau/ Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), 1 June, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access 
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Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall, India Meteorological Department, 12 April, 2016, Please &lt;a href=&quot;tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Inflation down, RBI rate cut hopes up -Asit Ranjan Mishra, Livemint.com, 13 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;../latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Kharif crop planting jumps 4% year on year -Madhvi Sally, The Economic Times, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;../latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html&quot;&gt;click here &lt;/a&gt;to access&lt;br /&gt;
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Kharif sowing till date 4.2 per cent higher than last year, The Hindu Business Line, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;../latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;
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A fall in the rate of inflation (on point to point basis) in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;A fall in the rate of inflation &lt;em&gt;(on point to point basis) &lt;/em&gt;in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place during recent months in the agricultural sector, which is expected to further cool off food prices in the near future. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A document from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare released in September 2016 shows that there has been an increase in the gross area sown under rice, pulses and coarse cereals during &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; 2016-17 vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same season last year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This agriculture year&#039;s &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season, which is between July and October during the south-west monsoon, has seen a rise by 4.2 percent in total sown area vis-&amp;agrave;-vis the same period in 2015-16, as per the latest available data. The total sown area as on 9 September, 2016, as per reports received by the Ministry of Agriculture from various states, stands at 105.4 million hectares as compared to 101.2 million hectares in 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Table 1: Gross sown area under major crops (million hectares) during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of various years&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Table%201%20Gross%20area%20under%20major%20crops%20(million%20hectares)%20during%20kharif%20season%20of%20various%20years.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Area sown under various crops&quot; width=&quot;273&quot; height=&quot;87&quot; /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;1. Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot; title=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;2. Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh&amp;nbsp;hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, dated 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot; title=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: &lt;/strong&gt;The data on gross sown area under various crops (during kharif) from 2009-10 to 2014-15 has been taken from Economic Survey 2015-16 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; cropping season (and thus &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;sowing) of 2016-17 agriculture year is not yet over (at the time of writing the present newsalert), the estimates of gross sown area under various crops in this season might further increase over the coming days. . &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The increase in sown area under various crops in the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season of 2016-17 could be attributed to the rise in minimum support prices that were declared recently for crops like paddy, coarse cereals, pulses, oilseeds and cotton. Normal to excessive monsoon rainfall received by various parts of the country is another factor, which is responsible for improvement in area sown under various crops during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season as compared to the last year. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The total area sown under pulses during this years&amp;rsquo; &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season has been the highest as compared to the sown area under pulses during the last 7 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; seasons. It means that the country might see a record production of pulses during the agriculture year 2016-17, if everything goes well. Please check table-1. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Similarly, there has been a marginal increase in the area sown under oilseeds from 18.2 million hectares in 2015-16 to 18.7 million hectares in 2016-17 during the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It must be noted that in June this year, the NDA&#039;s Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decided to give a bonus, over and above the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), of Rs. 425/- per quintal for &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; pulses, namely Arhar (Tur), Urad and Moong, a bonus of Rs 200/- per quintal for Sesamum and a bonus of Rs 100/- per quintal for other &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;oilseeds namely, Groundnut-in-shell, Sunflower seed, Soyabean, and Nigerseed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although the total sown area during &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;season under rice has increased from 37 million hectares to 38 million hectares between 2015-16 and 2016-17, the level at which it stands presently is still lower than what existed in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Please see table-1. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is worth noting that for paddy (common variety), the MSP recommended during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season has been Rs. 1470/- per quintal. The MSP for paddy (common variety) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1410/- per quintal. Similarly, for paddy (Grade A), the MSP recommended has been Rs. 1510/- per quintal during 2016-17 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season. The MSP for paddy (Grade A) during 2015-16 &lt;em&gt;kharif&lt;/em&gt; season was Rs. 1450/- per quintal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the table-1, it could be observed that there has been a dip in the gross area under cotton production from 11.5 million hectares to 10.2 million hectares between the &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;seasons of 2015-16 and 2016-17.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monsoon Rainfall &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As mentioned earlier, normal to excessive monsoon rainfall in different parts of India is responsible for increased area under &lt;em&gt;kharif &lt;/em&gt;cultivation. A document entitled &lt;em&gt;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&lt;/em&gt; from the India Meteorological Department (dated 12 April, 2016) predicts that the monsoon rainfall during the 2016 monsoon season (June to September) averaged over the country as a whole is likely to be 111% &amp;plusmn; 5% of long period model average (LPMA).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The document entitled &lt;em&gt;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&lt;/em&gt; from the IMD (dated 8 September 2016), however, shows that for the country as a whole, the cumulative rainfall during this year&amp;rsquo;s monsoon upto 7 September has been 4 percent below the Long Period Average (LPA). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same document shows that the cumulative rainfall during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions north-west India and central India have been 2 percent and 3 percent above the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cumulative rainfall during the span 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions south Peninsula and east &amp;amp; north-east India have been 11 percent and 14 percent below the LPA, respectively. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chart 1: Monsoon Rainfall (mm) received by various states and UTs during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Chart%201%20Monsoon%20Rainfall%20during%201%20June%20to%207%20Sep%202016.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;Chart 1 Rainfall&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;417&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source: &lt;/strong&gt;Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The chart-1 shows that excessive monsoon rainfall was received by east Madhya Pradesh, west Madhya Pradesh, east Rajasthan, west Rajasthan and Haryana during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016. Deficient monsoon rainfall took place in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, parts of north-east, coastal Karnataka and parts of Gujarat &amp;amp; Daman.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The chart-2 shows the distribution of cumulative rainfall received by the country from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chart 2: Distribution of Cumulative Rainfall (mm) for the country (from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Chart%202%20Cumulative%20Distribution%20of%20Rainfall%20from%201%20June%20to%2011%20September%202016.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Chart 2&quot; width=&quot;225&quot; height=&quot;79&quot; /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt; India Meteorological Department, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in&quot; title=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in&quot;&gt;www.imd.gov.in&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the Central Water Commission, the live water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on 8 September, 2016 has been 108.104 BCM, which is 69 percent of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs. The live storage available in 91 reservoirs as per the 8 September, 2016 Bulletin is 117 percent of the live storage of corresponding period of last year and 97 percent of storage of average of last ten years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;References&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot; title=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Press release: Consumer Price Index numbers on Base 2012=100 for Rural, Urban and Combined for the month of August 2016, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, 12 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf&quot; title=&quot;http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;India Meteorological Department press releases,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php&quot; title=&quot;http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php&quot;&gt;http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country (week ending 8 September, 2016), Central Water Commission, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for Kharif Crops of 2016-17 season, Press Information Bureau/ Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), 1 June, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856&quot; title=&quot;http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall, India Meteorological Department, 12 April, 2016, Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot; title=&quot;http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inflation down, RBI rate cut hopes up -Asit Ranjan Mishra, Livemint.com, 13 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kharif crop planting jumps 4% year on year -Madhvi Sally, The Economic Times, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html&quot;&gt;click here &lt;/a&gt;to access&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kharif sowing till date 4.2 per cent higher than last year, The Hindu Business Line, 9 September, 2016, please &lt;a href=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html&quot; title=&quot;https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; 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                <br /><div align="justify">A fall in the rate of inflation <em>(on point to point basis) </em>in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place during recent months in the agricultural sector, which is expected to further cool off food prices in the near future. <br /><br />A document from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare released in September 2016 shows that there has been an increase in the gross area sown under rice, pulses and coarse cereals during <em>kharif</em> 2016-17 vis-&agrave;-vis the same season last year.<br /><br />This agriculture year's <em>kharif</em> cropping season, which is between July and October during the south-west monsoon, has seen a rise by 4.2 percent in total sown area vis-&agrave;-vis the same period in 2015-16, as per the latest available data. The total sown area as on 9 September, 2016, as per reports received by the Ministry of Agriculture from various states, stands at 105.4 million hectares as compared to 101.2 million hectares in 2015-16 <em>kharif</em> season. Please check table-1. <br /><br /><strong>Table 1: Gross sown area under major crops (million hectares) during <em>kharif </em>season of various years<br /></strong></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><img src="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Table%201%20Gross%20area%20under%20major%20crops%20(million%20hectares)%20during%20kharif%20season%20of%20various%20years.jpg" alt="Area sown under various crops" width="273" height="87" /> <br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><em><strong>Source: </strong>1. Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please <a href="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf" title="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf">click here</a> to access<br /></em><br /><em>2. Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh&nbsp;hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, dated 9 September, 2016, please <a href="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657" title="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657">click here</a> to access<br /></em><br /><em><strong>Note: </strong>The data on gross sown area under various crops (during kharif) from 2009-10 to 2014-15 has been taken from Economic Survey 2015-16 <br /></em><br />Since the <em>kharif</em> cropping season (and thus <em>kharif </em>sowing) of 2016-17 agriculture year is not yet over (at the time of writing the present newsalert), the estimates of gross sown area under various crops in this season might further increase over the coming days. . &nbsp;<br /><br />The increase in sown area under various crops in the <em>kharif </em>season of 2016-17 could be attributed to the rise in minimum support prices that were declared recently for crops like paddy, coarse cereals, pulses, oilseeds and cotton. Normal to excessive monsoon rainfall received by various parts of the country is another factor, which is responsible for improvement in area sown under various crops during the <em>kharif </em>season as compared to the last year. <br /><br />The total area sown under pulses during this years&rsquo; <em>kharif </em>season has been the highest as compared to the sown area under pulses during the last 7 <em>kharif</em> seasons. It means that the country might see a record production of pulses during the agriculture year 2016-17, if everything goes well. Please check table-1. <br /><br />Similarly, there has been a marginal increase in the area sown under oilseeds from 18.2 million hectares in 2015-16 to 18.7 million hectares in 2016-17 during the <em>kharif </em>season.<br /><br />It must be noted that in June this year, the NDA's Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decided to give a bonus, over and above the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), of Rs. 425/- per quintal for <em>kharif</em> pulses, namely Arhar (Tur), Urad and Moong, a bonus of Rs 200/- per quintal for Sesamum and a bonus of Rs 100/- per quintal for other <em>kharif </em>oilseeds namely, Groundnut-in-shell, Sunflower seed, Soyabean, and Nigerseed.<br /><br />Although the total sown area during <em>kharif </em>season under rice has increased from 37 million hectares to 38 million hectares between 2015-16 and 2016-17, the level at which it stands presently is still lower than what existed in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Please see table-1. <br /><br />It is worth noting that for paddy (common variety), the MSP recommended during 2016-17 <em>kharif</em> season has been Rs. 1470/- per quintal. The MSP for paddy (common variety) during 2015-16 <em>kharif</em> season was Rs. 1410/- per quintal. Similarly, for paddy (Grade A), the MSP recommended has been Rs. 1510/- per quintal during 2016-17 <em>kharif</em> season. The MSP for paddy (Grade A) during 2015-16 <em>kharif</em> season was Rs. 1450/- per quintal.<br /><br />From the table-1, it could be observed that there has been a dip in the gross area under cotton production from 11.5 million hectares to 10.2 million hectares between the <em>kharif </em>seasons of 2015-16 and 2016-17.<br /><br /><strong>Monsoon Rainfall <br /></strong><br />As mentioned earlier, normal to excessive monsoon rainfall in different parts of India is responsible for increased area under <em>kharif </em>cultivation. A document entitled <em>Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall</em> from the India Meteorological Department (dated 12 April, 2016) predicts that the monsoon rainfall during the 2016 monsoon season (June to September) averaged over the country as a whole is likely to be 111% &plusmn; 5% of long period model average (LPMA).<br /><br />The document entitled <em>Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast</em> from the IMD (dated 8 September 2016), however, shows that for the country as a whole, the cumulative rainfall during this year&rsquo;s monsoon upto 7 September has been 4 percent below the Long Period Average (LPA). <br /><br />The same document shows that the cumulative rainfall during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions north-west India and central India have been 2 percent and 3 percent above the LPA, respectively. <br /><br />The cumulative rainfall during the span 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions south Peninsula and east &amp; north-east India have been 11 percent and 14 percent below the LPA, respectively. <br /><br /><strong>Chart 1: Monsoon Rainfall (mm) received by various states and UTs during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 <br /></strong></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><img src="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Chart%201%20Monsoon%20Rainfall%20during%201%20June%20to%207%20Sep%202016.JPG" alt="Chart 1 Rainfall" width="320" height="417" /><br /><br /><em><strong>Source: </strong>Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast">click here</a> to access</em></div><div align="justify"><br />The chart-1 shows that excessive monsoon rainfall was received by east Madhya Pradesh, west Madhya Pradesh, east Rajasthan, west Rajasthan and Haryana during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016. Deficient monsoon rainfall took place in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, parts of north-east, coastal Karnataka and parts of Gujarat &amp; Daman.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br /><br />The chart-2 shows the distribution of cumulative rainfall received by the country from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016. <br /><br /><strong>Chart 2: Distribution of Cumulative Rainfall (mm) for the country (from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016)<br /></strong></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><img src="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Chart%202%20Cumulative%20Distribution%20of%20Rainfall%20from%201%20June%20to%2011%20September%202016.jpg" alt="Chart 2" width="225" height="79" />&nbsp;</div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><em><strong>Source:</strong> India Meteorological Department, <a href="http://www.imd.gov.in" title="http://www.imd.gov.in">www.imd.gov.in</a><br /></em><br />According to the Central Water Commission, the live water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on 8 September, 2016 has been 108.104 BCM, which is 69 percent of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs. The live storage available in 91 reservoirs as per the 8 September, 2016 Bulletin is 117 percent of the live storage of corresponding period of last year and 97 percent of storage of average of last ten years.<br /><br /><strong><em>References<br /></em></strong><br />Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 9 September, 2016, please <a href="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657" title="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657">click here</a> to access<br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify">Press release: Consumer Price Index numbers on Base 2012=100 for Rural, Urban and Combined for the month of August 2016, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, 12 September, 2016, please <a href="http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf" title="http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast">click here</a> to access<br /><br />India Meteorological Department press releases,<br /><a href="http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php" title="http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php">http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php</a> <br /><br />Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country (week ending 8 September, 2016), Central Water Commission, please <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for Kharif Crops of 2016-17 season, Press Information Bureau/ Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), 1 June, 2016, please <a href="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856" title="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856">click here</a> to access </div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify">Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall, India Meteorological Department, 12 April, 2016, Please <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf" title="Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf" title="Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please <a href="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf" title="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Inflation down, RBI rate cut hopes up -Asit Ranjan Mishra, Livemint.com, 13 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html" title="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Kharif crop planting jumps 4% year on year -Madhvi Sally, The Economic Times, 9 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html" title="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html">click here </a>to access<br /><br />Kharif sowing till date 4.2 per cent higher than last year, The Hindu Business Line, 9 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html" title="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html">click here</a> to access<br /><br /><br /><strong>Image Courtesy: Himanshu Joshi</strong></div>               </font>
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A fall in the rate of inflation <em>(on point to point basis) </em>in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place during recent months in the agricultural sector, which is expected to further cool off food prices in the near future. <br />
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A document from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare released in September 2016 shows that there has been an increase in the gross area sown under rice, pulses and coarse cereals during <em>kharif</em> 2016-17 vis-&agrave;-vis the same season last year.<br />
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This agriculture year's <em>kharif</em> cropping season, which is between July and October during the south-west monsoon, has seen a rise by 4.2 percent in total sown area vis-&agrave;-vis the same period in 2015-16, as per the latest available data. The total sown area as on 9 September, 2016, as per reports received by the Ministry of Agriculture from various states, stands at 105.4 million hectares as compared to 101.2 million hectares in 2015-16 <em>kharif</em> season. Please check table-1. <br />
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<strong>Table 1: Gross sown area under major crops (million hectares) during <em>kharif </em>season of various years<br />
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<strong>Source: </strong>1. Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please <a href="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf">click here</a> to access<br />
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<em>2. Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh&nbsp;
hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, dated 9 
September, 2016, please <a href="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657">click here</a> to access<br />
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<em><strong>Note: </strong>The data on gross sown area under various crops (during kharif) from 2009-10 to 2014-15 has been taken from Economic Survey 2015-16 <br />
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Since the <em>kharif</em> cropping season (and thus <em>kharif </em>sowing) of 2016-17 agriculture year is not yet over (at the time of writing the present newsalert), the estimates of gross sown area under various crops in this season might further increase over the coming days. . &nbsp;<br />
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The increase in sown area under various crops in the <em>kharif </em>season of 2016-17 could be attributed to the rise in minimum support prices that were declared recently for crops like paddy, coarse cereals, pulses, oilseeds and cotton. Normal to excessive monsoon rainfall received by various parts of the country is another factor, which is responsible for improvement in area sown under various crops during the <em>kharif </em>season as compared to the last year. <br />
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The total area sown under pulses during this years&rsquo; <em>kharif </em>season has been the highest as compared to the sown area under pulses during the last 7 <em>kharif</em> seasons. It means that the country might see a record production of pulses during the agriculture year 2016-17, if everything goes well. Please check table-1. <br />
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Similarly, there has been a marginal increase in the area sown under oilseeds from 18.2 million hectares in 2015-16 to 18.7 million hectares in 2016-17 during the <em>kharif </em>season.<br />
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It must be noted that in June this year, the NDA's Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decided to give a bonus, over and above the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), of Rs. 425/- per quintal for <em>kharif</em> pulses, namely Arhar (Tur), Urad and Moong, a bonus of Rs 200/- per quintal for Sesamum and a bonus of Rs 100/- per quintal for other <em>kharif </em>oilseeds namely, Groundnut-in-shell, Sunflower seed, Soyabean, and Nigerseed.<br />
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Although the total sown area during <em>kharif </em>season under rice has increased from 37 million hectares to 38 million hectares between 2015-16 and 2016-17, the level at which it stands presently is still lower than what existed in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Please see table-1. <br />
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It is worth noting that for paddy (common variety), the MSP recommended during 2016-17 <em>kharif</em> season has been Rs. 1470/- per quintal. The MSP for paddy (common variety) during 2015-16 <em>kharif</em> season was Rs. 1410/- per quintal. Similarly, for paddy (Grade A), the MSP recommended has been Rs. 1510/- per quintal during 2016-17 <em>kharif</em> season. The MSP for paddy (Grade A) during 2015-16 <em>kharif</em> season was Rs. 1450/- per quintal.<br />
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From the table-1, it could be observed that there has been a dip in the gross area under cotton production from 11.5 million hectares to 10.2 million hectares between the <em>kharif </em>seasons of 2015-16 and 2016-17.<br />
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<strong>Monsoon Rainfall <br />
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As mentioned earlier, normal to excessive monsoon rainfall in different parts of India is responsible for increased area under <em>kharif </em>cultivation. A document entitled <em>Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall</em> from the India Meteorological Department (dated 12 April, 2016) predicts that the monsoon rainfall during the 2016 monsoon season (June to September) averaged over the country as a whole is likely to be 111% &plusmn; 5% of long period model average (LPMA).<br />
<br />
The document entitled <em>Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast</em> from the IMD (dated 8 September 2016), however, shows that for the country as a whole, the cumulative rainfall during this year&rsquo;s monsoon upto 7 September has been 4 percent below the Long Period Average (LPA). <br />
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The same document shows that the cumulative rainfall during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions north-west India and central India have been 2 percent and 3 percent above the LPA, respectively. <br />
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The cumulative rainfall during the span 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions south Peninsula and east &amp; north-east India have been 11 percent and 14 percent below the LPA, respectively. <br />
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<strong>Chart 1: Monsoon Rainfall (mm) received by various states and UTs during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 <br />
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<strong>Source: </strong>Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please <a href="tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast">click here</a> to access</em>
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The chart-1 shows that excessive monsoon rainfall was received by east Madhya Pradesh, west Madhya Pradesh, east Rajasthan, west Rajasthan and Haryana during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016. Deficient monsoon rainfall took place in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, parts of north-east, coastal Karnataka and parts of Gujarat &amp; Daman.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
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The chart-2 shows the distribution of cumulative rainfall received by the country from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016. <br />
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<strong>Chart 2: Distribution of Cumulative Rainfall (mm) for the country (from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016)<br />
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<img src="tinymce/uploaded/Chart%202%20Cumulative%20Distribution%20of%20Rainfall%20from%201%20June%20to%2011%20September%202016.jpg" alt="Chart 2" width="225" height="79" />&nbsp;
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<em><strong>Source:</strong> India Meteorological Department, <a href="http://www.imd.gov.in">www.imd.gov.in</a><br />
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According to the Central Water Commission, the live water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on 8 September, 2016 has been 108.104 BCM, which is 69 percent of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs. The live storage available in 91 reservoirs as per the 8 September, 2016 Bulletin is 117 percent of the live storage of corresponding period of last year and 97 percent of storage of average of last ten years.<br />
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<strong><em>References<br />
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Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 9 September, 2016, please <a href="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657">click here</a> to access<br />
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Press release: Consumer Price Index numbers on Base 2012=100 for Rural, Urban and Combined for the month of August 2016, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, 12 September, 2016, please <a href="http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf">click here</a> to access<br />
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Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please <a href="tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast">click here</a> to access<br />
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India Meteorological Department press releases,<br />
<a href="http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php">http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php</a> <br />
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Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country (week ending 8 September, 2016), Central Water Commission, please <a href="tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country">click here</a> to access<br />
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Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for Kharif Crops of 2016-17 season, Press Information Bureau/ Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), 1 June, 2016, please <a href="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856">click here</a> to access 
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Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall, India Meteorological Department, 12 April, 2016, Please <a href="tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf" title="Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall">click here</a> to access<br />
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Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please <a href="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf">click here</a> to access<br />
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Inflation down, RBI rate cut hopes up -Asit Ranjan Mishra, Livemint.com, 13 September, 2016, please <a href="../latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html">click here</a> to access<br />
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Kharif crop planting jumps 4% year on year -Madhvi Sally, The Economic Times, 9 September, 2016, please <a href="../latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html">click here </a>to access<br />
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Kharif sowing till date 4.2 per cent higher than last year, The Hindu Business Line, 9 September, 2016, please <a href="../latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html">click here</a> to access<br />
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<strong>Image Courtesy: Himanshu Joshi</strong>
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A fall in the rate of inflation (on point to point basis) in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place...',
	'disp' => '<br /><div align="justify">A fall in the rate of inflation <em>(on point to point basis) </em>in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place during recent months in the agricultural sector, which is expected to further cool off food prices in the near future. <br /><br />A document from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare released in September 2016 shows that there has been an increase in the gross area sown under rice, pulses and coarse cereals during <em>kharif</em> 2016-17 vis-&agrave;-vis the same season last year.<br /><br />This agriculture year's <em>kharif</em> cropping season, which is between July and October during the south-west monsoon, has seen a rise by 4.2 percent in total sown area vis-&agrave;-vis the same period in 2015-16, as per the latest available data. The total sown area as on 9 September, 2016, as per reports received by the Ministry of Agriculture from various states, stands at 105.4 million hectares as compared to 101.2 million hectares in 2015-16 <em>kharif</em> season. Please check table-1. <br /><br /><strong>Table 1: Gross sown area under major crops (million hectares) during <em>kharif </em>season of various years<br /></strong></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><img src="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Table%201%20Gross%20area%20under%20major%20crops%20(million%20hectares)%20during%20kharif%20season%20of%20various%20years.jpg" alt="Area sown under various crops" width="273" height="87" /> <br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><em><strong>Source: </strong>1. Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please <a href="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf" title="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf">click here</a> to access<br /></em><br /><em>2. Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh&nbsp;hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, dated 9 September, 2016, please <a href="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657" title="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657">click here</a> to access<br /></em><br /><em><strong>Note: </strong>The data on gross sown area under various crops (during kharif) from 2009-10 to 2014-15 has been taken from Economic Survey 2015-16 <br /></em><br />Since the <em>kharif</em> cropping season (and thus <em>kharif </em>sowing) of 2016-17 agriculture year is not yet over (at the time of writing the present newsalert), the estimates of gross sown area under various crops in this season might further increase over the coming days. . &nbsp;<br /><br />The increase in sown area under various crops in the <em>kharif </em>season of 2016-17 could be attributed to the rise in minimum support prices that were declared recently for crops like paddy, coarse cereals, pulses, oilseeds and cotton. Normal to excessive monsoon rainfall received by various parts of the country is another factor, which is responsible for improvement in area sown under various crops during the <em>kharif </em>season as compared to the last year. <br /><br />The total area sown under pulses during this years&rsquo; <em>kharif </em>season has been the highest as compared to the sown area under pulses during the last 7 <em>kharif</em> seasons. It means that the country might see a record production of pulses during the agriculture year 2016-17, if everything goes well. Please check table-1. <br /><br />Similarly, there has been a marginal increase in the area sown under oilseeds from 18.2 million hectares in 2015-16 to 18.7 million hectares in 2016-17 during the <em>kharif </em>season.<br /><br />It must be noted that in June this year, the NDA's Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decided to give a bonus, over and above the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), of Rs. 425/- per quintal for <em>kharif</em> pulses, namely Arhar (Tur), Urad and Moong, a bonus of Rs 200/- per quintal for Sesamum and a bonus of Rs 100/- per quintal for other <em>kharif </em>oilseeds namely, Groundnut-in-shell, Sunflower seed, Soyabean, and Nigerseed.<br /><br />Although the total sown area during <em>kharif </em>season under rice has increased from 37 million hectares to 38 million hectares between 2015-16 and 2016-17, the level at which it stands presently is still lower than what existed in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Please see table-1. <br /><br />It is worth noting that for paddy (common variety), the MSP recommended during 2016-17 <em>kharif</em> season has been Rs. 1470/- per quintal. The MSP for paddy (common variety) during 2015-16 <em>kharif</em> season was Rs. 1410/- per quintal. Similarly, for paddy (Grade A), the MSP recommended has been Rs. 1510/- per quintal during 2016-17 <em>kharif</em> season. The MSP for paddy (Grade A) during 2015-16 <em>kharif</em> season was Rs. 1450/- per quintal.<br /><br />From the table-1, it could be observed that there has been a dip in the gross area under cotton production from 11.5 million hectares to 10.2 million hectares between the <em>kharif </em>seasons of 2015-16 and 2016-17.<br /><br /><strong>Monsoon Rainfall <br /></strong><br />As mentioned earlier, normal to excessive monsoon rainfall in different parts of India is responsible for increased area under <em>kharif </em>cultivation. A document entitled <em>Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall</em> from the India Meteorological Department (dated 12 April, 2016) predicts that the monsoon rainfall during the 2016 monsoon season (June to September) averaged over the country as a whole is likely to be 111% &plusmn; 5% of long period model average (LPMA).<br /><br />The document entitled <em>Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast</em> from the IMD (dated 8 September 2016), however, shows that for the country as a whole, the cumulative rainfall during this year&rsquo;s monsoon upto 7 September has been 4 percent below the Long Period Average (LPA). <br /><br />The same document shows that the cumulative rainfall during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions north-west India and central India have been 2 percent and 3 percent above the LPA, respectively. <br /><br />The cumulative rainfall during the span 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions south Peninsula and east &amp; north-east India have been 11 percent and 14 percent below the LPA, respectively. <br /><br /><strong>Chart 1: Monsoon Rainfall (mm) received by various states and UTs during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 <br /></strong></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><img src="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Chart%201%20Monsoon%20Rainfall%20during%201%20June%20to%207%20Sep%202016.JPG" alt="Chart 1 Rainfall" width="320" height="417" /><br /><br /><em><strong>Source: </strong>Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast">click here</a> to access</em></div><div align="justify"><br />The chart-1 shows that excessive monsoon rainfall was received by east Madhya Pradesh, west Madhya Pradesh, east Rajasthan, west Rajasthan and Haryana during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016. Deficient monsoon rainfall took place in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, parts of north-east, coastal Karnataka and parts of Gujarat &amp; Daman.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br /><br />The chart-2 shows the distribution of cumulative rainfall received by the country from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016. <br /><br /><strong>Chart 2: Distribution of Cumulative Rainfall (mm) for the country (from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016)<br /></strong></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><img src="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Chart%202%20Cumulative%20Distribution%20of%20Rainfall%20from%201%20June%20to%2011%20September%202016.jpg" alt="Chart 2" width="225" height="79" />&nbsp;</div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><em><strong>Source:</strong> India Meteorological Department, <a href="http://www.imd.gov.in" title="http://www.imd.gov.in">www.imd.gov.in</a><br /></em><br />According to the Central Water Commission, the live water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on 8 September, 2016 has been 108.104 BCM, which is 69 percent of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs. The live storage available in 91 reservoirs as per the 8 September, 2016 Bulletin is 117 percent of the live storage of corresponding period of last year and 97 percent of storage of average of last ten years.<br /><br /><strong><em>References<br /></em></strong><br />Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 9 September, 2016, please <a href="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657" title="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657">click here</a> to access<br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify">Press release: Consumer Price Index numbers on Base 2012=100 for Rural, Urban and Combined for the month of August 2016, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, 12 September, 2016, please <a href="http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf" title="http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast">click here</a> to access<br /><br />India Meteorological Department press releases,<br /><a href="http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php" title="http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php">http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php</a> <br /><br />Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country (week ending 8 September, 2016), Central Water Commission, please <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for Kharif Crops of 2016-17 season, Press Information Bureau/ Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), 1 June, 2016, please <a href="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856" title="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856">click here</a> to access </div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify">Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall, India Meteorological Department, 12 April, 2016, Please <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf" title="Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf" title="Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please <a href="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf" title="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Inflation down, RBI rate cut hopes up -Asit Ranjan Mishra, Livemint.com, 13 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html" title="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Kharif crop planting jumps 4% year on year -Madhvi Sally, The Economic Times, 9 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html" title="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html">click here </a>to access<br /><br />Kharif sowing till date 4.2 per cent higher than last year, The Hindu Business Line, 9 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html" title="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html">click here</a> to access<br /><br /><br /><strong>Image Courtesy: Himanshu Joshi</strong></div>',
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A fall in the rate of inflation <em>(on point to point basis) </em>in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place during recent months in the agricultural sector, which is expected to further cool off food prices in the near future. <br />
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A document from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare released in September 2016 shows that there has been an increase in the gross area sown under rice, pulses and coarse cereals during <em>kharif</em> 2016-17 vis-&agrave;-vis the same season last year.<br />
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This agriculture year's <em>kharif</em> cropping season, which is between July and October during the south-west monsoon, has seen a rise by 4.2 percent in total sown area vis-&agrave;-vis the same period in 2015-16, as per the latest available data. The total sown area as on 9 September, 2016, as per reports received by the Ministry of Agriculture from various states, stands at 105.4 million hectares as compared to 101.2 million hectares in 2015-16 <em>kharif</em> season. Please check table-1. <br />
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<strong>Table 1: Gross sown area under major crops (million hectares) during <em>kharif </em>season of various years<br />
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<strong>Source: </strong>1. Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please <a href="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf">click here</a> to access<br />
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<em>2. Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh&nbsp;
hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, dated 9 
September, 2016, please <a href="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657">click here</a> to access<br />
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<em><strong>Note: </strong>The data on gross sown area under various crops (during kharif) from 2009-10 to 2014-15 has been taken from Economic Survey 2015-16 <br />
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Since the <em>kharif</em> cropping season (and thus <em>kharif </em>sowing) of 2016-17 agriculture year is not yet over (at the time of writing the present newsalert), the estimates of gross sown area under various crops in this season might further increase over the coming days. . &nbsp;<br />
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The increase in sown area under various crops in the <em>kharif </em>season of 2016-17 could be attributed to the rise in minimum support prices that were declared recently for crops like paddy, coarse cereals, pulses, oilseeds and cotton. Normal to excessive monsoon rainfall received by various parts of the country is another factor, which is responsible for improvement in area sown under various crops during the <em>kharif </em>season as compared to the last year. <br />
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The total area sown under pulses during this years&rsquo; <em>kharif </em>season has been the highest as compared to the sown area under pulses during the last 7 <em>kharif</em> seasons. It means that the country might see a record production of pulses during the agriculture year 2016-17, if everything goes well. Please check table-1. <br />
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Similarly, there has been a marginal increase in the area sown under oilseeds from 18.2 million hectares in 2015-16 to 18.7 million hectares in 2016-17 during the <em>kharif </em>season.<br />
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It must be noted that in June this year, the NDA's Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decided to give a bonus, over and above the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), of Rs. 425/- per quintal for <em>kharif</em> pulses, namely Arhar (Tur), Urad and Moong, a bonus of Rs 200/- per quintal for Sesamum and a bonus of Rs 100/- per quintal for other <em>kharif </em>oilseeds namely, Groundnut-in-shell, Sunflower seed, Soyabean, and Nigerseed.<br />
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Although the total sown area during <em>kharif </em>season under rice has increased from 37 million hectares to 38 million hectares between 2015-16 and 2016-17, the level at which it stands presently is still lower than what existed in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Please see table-1. <br />
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It is worth noting that for paddy (common variety), the MSP recommended during 2016-17 <em>kharif</em> season has been Rs. 1470/- per quintal. The MSP for paddy (common variety) during 2015-16 <em>kharif</em> season was Rs. 1410/- per quintal. Similarly, for paddy (Grade A), the MSP recommended has been Rs. 1510/- per quintal during 2016-17 <em>kharif</em> season. The MSP for paddy (Grade A) during 2015-16 <em>kharif</em> season was Rs. 1450/- per quintal.<br />
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From the table-1, it could be observed that there has been a dip in the gross area under cotton production from 11.5 million hectares to 10.2 million hectares between the <em>kharif </em>seasons of 2015-16 and 2016-17.<br />
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<strong>Monsoon Rainfall <br />
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As mentioned earlier, normal to excessive monsoon rainfall in different parts of India is responsible for increased area under <em>kharif </em>cultivation. A document entitled <em>Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall</em> from the India Meteorological Department (dated 12 April, 2016) predicts that the monsoon rainfall during the 2016 monsoon season (June to September) averaged over the country as a whole is likely to be 111% &plusmn; 5% of long period model average (LPMA).<br />
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The document entitled <em>Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast</em> from the IMD (dated 8 September 2016), however, shows that for the country as a whole, the cumulative rainfall during this year&rsquo;s monsoon upto 7 September has been 4 percent below the Long Period Average (LPA). <br />
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The same document shows that the cumulative rainfall during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions north-west India and central India have been 2 percent and 3 percent above the LPA, respectively. <br />
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The cumulative rainfall during the span 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions south Peninsula and east &amp; north-east India have been 11 percent and 14 percent below the LPA, respectively. <br />
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<strong>Chart 1: Monsoon Rainfall (mm) received by various states and UTs during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 <br />
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<strong>Source: </strong>Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please <a href="tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast">click here</a> to access</em>
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The chart-1 shows that excessive monsoon rainfall was received by east Madhya Pradesh, west Madhya Pradesh, east Rajasthan, west Rajasthan and Haryana during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016. Deficient monsoon rainfall took place in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, parts of north-east, coastal Karnataka and parts of Gujarat &amp; Daman.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br />
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The chart-2 shows the distribution of cumulative rainfall received by the country from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016. <br />
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<strong>Chart 2: Distribution of Cumulative Rainfall (mm) for the country (from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016)<br />
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<em><strong>Source:</strong> India Meteorological Department, <a href="http://www.imd.gov.in">www.imd.gov.in</a><br />
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According to the Central Water Commission, the live water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on 8 September, 2016 has been 108.104 BCM, which is 69 percent of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs. The live storage available in 91 reservoirs as per the 8 September, 2016 Bulletin is 117 percent of the live storage of corresponding period of last year and 97 percent of storage of average of last ten years.<br />
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<strong><em>References<br />
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Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 9 September, 2016, please <a href="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657">click here</a> to access<br />
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Press release: Consumer Price Index numbers on Base 2012=100 for Rural, Urban and Combined for the month of August 2016, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, 12 September, 2016, please <a href="http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf">click here</a> to access<br />
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Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please <a href="tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast">click here</a> to access<br />
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India Meteorological Department press releases,<br />
<a href="http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php">http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php</a> <br />
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Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country (week ending 8 September, 2016), Central Water Commission, please <a href="tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country">click here</a> to access<br />
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Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for Kharif Crops of 2016-17 season, Press Information Bureau/ Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), 1 June, 2016, please <a href="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856">click here</a> to access 
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Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall, India Meteorological Department, 12 April, 2016, Please <a href="tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf" title="Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall">click here</a> to access<br />
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Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please <a href="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf">click here</a> to access<br />
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Inflation down, RBI rate cut hopes up -Asit Ranjan Mishra, Livemint.com, 13 September, 2016, please <a href="../latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html">click here</a> to access<br />
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Kharif crop planting jumps 4% year on year -Madhvi Sally, The Economic Times, 9 September, 2016, please <a href="../latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html">click here </a>to access<br />
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Kharif sowing till date 4.2 per cent higher than last year, The Hindu Business Line, 9 September, 2016, please <a href="../latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html">click here</a> to access<br />
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<strong>Image Courtesy: Himanshu Joshi</strong>
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A fall in the rate of inflation (on point to point basis) in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place...'
$disp = '<br /><div align="justify">A fall in the rate of inflation <em>(on point to point basis) </em>in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place during recent months in the agricultural sector, which is expected to further cool off food prices in the near future. <br /><br />A document from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare released in September 2016 shows that there has been an increase in the gross area sown under rice, pulses and coarse cereals during <em>kharif</em> 2016-17 vis-&agrave;-vis the same season last year.<br /><br />This agriculture year's <em>kharif</em> cropping season, which is between July and October during the south-west monsoon, has seen a rise by 4.2 percent in total sown area vis-&agrave;-vis the same period in 2015-16, as per the latest available data. The total sown area as on 9 September, 2016, as per reports received by the Ministry of Agriculture from various states, stands at 105.4 million hectares as compared to 101.2 million hectares in 2015-16 <em>kharif</em> season. Please check table-1. <br /><br /><strong>Table 1: Gross sown area under major crops (million hectares) during <em>kharif </em>season of various years<br /></strong></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><img src="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Table%201%20Gross%20area%20under%20major%20crops%20(million%20hectares)%20during%20kharif%20season%20of%20various%20years.jpg" alt="Area sown under various crops" width="273" height="87" /> <br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><em><strong>Source: </strong>1. Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please <a href="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf" title="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf">click here</a> to access<br /></em><br /><em>2. Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh&nbsp;hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, dated 9 September, 2016, please <a href="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657" title="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657">click here</a> to access<br /></em><br /><em><strong>Note: </strong>The data on gross sown area under various crops (during kharif) from 2009-10 to 2014-15 has been taken from Economic Survey 2015-16 <br /></em><br />Since the <em>kharif</em> cropping season (and thus <em>kharif </em>sowing) of 2016-17 agriculture year is not yet over (at the time of writing the present newsalert), the estimates of gross sown area under various crops in this season might further increase over the coming days. . &nbsp;<br /><br />The increase in sown area under various crops in the <em>kharif </em>season of 2016-17 could be attributed to the rise in minimum support prices that were declared recently for crops like paddy, coarse cereals, pulses, oilseeds and cotton. Normal to excessive monsoon rainfall received by various parts of the country is another factor, which is responsible for improvement in area sown under various crops during the <em>kharif </em>season as compared to the last year. <br /><br />The total area sown under pulses during this years&rsquo; <em>kharif </em>season has been the highest as compared to the sown area under pulses during the last 7 <em>kharif</em> seasons. It means that the country might see a record production of pulses during the agriculture year 2016-17, if everything goes well. Please check table-1. <br /><br />Similarly, there has been a marginal increase in the area sown under oilseeds from 18.2 million hectares in 2015-16 to 18.7 million hectares in 2016-17 during the <em>kharif </em>season.<br /><br />It must be noted that in June this year, the NDA's Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decided to give a bonus, over and above the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), of Rs. 425/- per quintal for <em>kharif</em> pulses, namely Arhar (Tur), Urad and Moong, a bonus of Rs 200/- per quintal for Sesamum and a bonus of Rs 100/- per quintal for other <em>kharif </em>oilseeds namely, Groundnut-in-shell, Sunflower seed, Soyabean, and Nigerseed.<br /><br />Although the total sown area during <em>kharif </em>season under rice has increased from 37 million hectares to 38 million hectares between 2015-16 and 2016-17, the level at which it stands presently is still lower than what existed in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Please see table-1. <br /><br />It is worth noting that for paddy (common variety), the MSP recommended during 2016-17 <em>kharif</em> season has been Rs. 1470/- per quintal. The MSP for paddy (common variety) during 2015-16 <em>kharif</em> season was Rs. 1410/- per quintal. Similarly, for paddy (Grade A), the MSP recommended has been Rs. 1510/- per quintal during 2016-17 <em>kharif</em> season. The MSP for paddy (Grade A) during 2015-16 <em>kharif</em> season was Rs. 1450/- per quintal.<br /><br />From the table-1, it could be observed that there has been a dip in the gross area under cotton production from 11.5 million hectares to 10.2 million hectares between the <em>kharif </em>seasons of 2015-16 and 2016-17.<br /><br /><strong>Monsoon Rainfall <br /></strong><br />As mentioned earlier, normal to excessive monsoon rainfall in different parts of India is responsible for increased area under <em>kharif </em>cultivation. A document entitled <em>Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall</em> from the India Meteorological Department (dated 12 April, 2016) predicts that the monsoon rainfall during the 2016 monsoon season (June to September) averaged over the country as a whole is likely to be 111% &plusmn; 5% of long period model average (LPMA).<br /><br />The document entitled <em>Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast</em> from the IMD (dated 8 September 2016), however, shows that for the country as a whole, the cumulative rainfall during this year&rsquo;s monsoon upto 7 September has been 4 percent below the Long Period Average (LPA). <br /><br />The same document shows that the cumulative rainfall during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions north-west India and central India have been 2 percent and 3 percent above the LPA, respectively. <br /><br />The cumulative rainfall during the span 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions south Peninsula and east &amp; north-east India have been 11 percent and 14 percent below the LPA, respectively. <br /><br /><strong>Chart 1: Monsoon Rainfall (mm) received by various states and UTs during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 <br /></strong></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><img src="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Chart%201%20Monsoon%20Rainfall%20during%201%20June%20to%207%20Sep%202016.JPG" alt="Chart 1 Rainfall" width="320" height="417" /><br /><br /><em><strong>Source: </strong>Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast">click here</a> to access</em></div><div align="justify"><br />The chart-1 shows that excessive monsoon rainfall was received by east Madhya Pradesh, west Madhya Pradesh, east Rajasthan, west Rajasthan and Haryana during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016. Deficient monsoon rainfall took place in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, parts of north-east, coastal Karnataka and parts of Gujarat &amp; Daman.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br /><br />The chart-2 shows the distribution of cumulative rainfall received by the country from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016. <br /><br /><strong>Chart 2: Distribution of Cumulative Rainfall (mm) for the country (from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016)<br /></strong></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><img src="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Chart%202%20Cumulative%20Distribution%20of%20Rainfall%20from%201%20June%20to%2011%20September%202016.jpg" alt="Chart 2" width="225" height="79" />&nbsp;</div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><em><strong>Source:</strong> India Meteorological Department, <a href="http://www.imd.gov.in" title="http://www.imd.gov.in">www.imd.gov.in</a><br /></em><br />According to the Central Water Commission, the live water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on 8 September, 2016 has been 108.104 BCM, which is 69 percent of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs. The live storage available in 91 reservoirs as per the 8 September, 2016 Bulletin is 117 percent of the live storage of corresponding period of last year and 97 percent of storage of average of last ten years.<br /><br /><strong><em>References<br /></em></strong><br />Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 9 September, 2016, please <a href="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657" title="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149657">click here</a> to access<br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify">Press release: Consumer Price Index numbers on Base 2012=100 for Rural, Urban and Combined for the month of August 2016, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, 12 September, 2016, please <a href="http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf" title="http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/cpi_pr_12sept16m.pdf">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Current%20status%20of%20south-west%20monsoon%202016%20and%20forecast%20dated%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast">click here</a> to access<br /><br />India Meteorological Department press releases,<br /><a href="http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php" title="http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php">http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php</a> <br /><br />Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country (week ending 8 September, 2016), Central Water Commission, please <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Brief%20note%20on%20live%20storage%20of%2091%20reservoirs%20in%20the%20country%20week%20ending%208%20September%202016.pdf" title="Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for Kharif Crops of 2016-17 season, Press Information Bureau/ Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), 1 June, 2016, please <a href="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856" title="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145856">click here</a> to access </div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify">Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall, India Meteorological Department, 12 April, 2016, Please <a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf" title="Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/IMD%20Long%20Range%20Forecast%2012%20April%202016.pdf" title="Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please <a href="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf" title="http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2015-16/estat1.pdf">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Inflation down, RBI rate cut hopes up -Asit Ranjan Mishra, Livemint.com, 13 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html" title="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/inflation-down-rbi-rate-cut-hopes-up-asit-ranjan-mishra-4680136.html">click here</a> to access<br /><br />Kharif crop planting jumps 4% year on year -Madhvi Sally, The Economic Times, 9 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html" title="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-crop-planting-jumps-4-year-on-year-madhvi-sally-4680123.html">click here </a>to access<br /><br />Kharif sowing till date 4.2 per cent higher than last year, The Hindu Business Line, 9 September, 2016, please <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html" title="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/kharif-sowing-till-date-4-2-per-cent-higher-than-last-year-4680122.html">click here</a> to access<br /><br /><br /><strong>Image Courtesy: Himanshu Joshi</strong></div>'
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Record increase in sown area under pulses during kharif 2016-17, shows latest data

A fall in the rate of inflation (on point to point basis) in Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) from 8.35 percent in July to 5.91 percent in August this year is indicative of the positive developments that has taken place during recent months in the agricultural sector, which is expected to further cool off food prices in the near future. A document from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare released in September 2016 shows that there has been an increase in the gross area sown under rice, pulses and coarse cereals during kharif 2016-17 vis-à-vis the same season last year. This agriculture year's kharif cropping season, which is between July and October during the south-west monsoon, has seen a rise by 4.2 percent in total sown area vis-à-vis the same period in 2015-16, as per the latest available data. The total sown area as on 9 September, 2016, as per reports received by the Ministry of Agriculture from various states, stands at 105.4 million hectares as compared to 101.2 million hectares in 2015-16 kharif season. Please check table-1. Table 1: Gross sown area under major crops (million hectares) during kharif season of various years     Source: 1. Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please click here to access 2. Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, dated 9 September, 2016, please click here to access Note: The data on gross sown area under various crops (during kharif) from 2009-10 to 2014-15 has been taken from Economic Survey 2015-16 Since the kharif cropping season (and thus kharif sowing) of 2016-17 agriculture year is not yet over (at the time of writing the present newsalert), the estimates of gross sown area under various crops in this season might further increase over the coming days. .   The increase in sown area under various crops in the kharif season of 2016-17 could be attributed to the rise in minimum support prices that were declared recently for crops like paddy, coarse cereals, pulses, oilseeds and cotton. Normal to excessive monsoon rainfall received by various parts of the country is another factor, which is responsible for improvement in area sown under various crops during the kharif season as compared to the last year. The total area sown under pulses during this years’ kharif season has been the highest as compared to the sown area under pulses during the last 7 kharif seasons. It means that the country might see a record production of pulses during the agriculture year 2016-17, if everything goes well. Please check table-1. Similarly, there has been a marginal increase in the area sown under oilseeds from 18.2 million hectares in 2015-16 to 18.7 million hectares in 2016-17 during the kharif season. It must be noted that in June this year, the NDA's Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decided to give a bonus, over and above the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), of Rs. 425/- per quintal for kharif pulses, namely Arhar (Tur), Urad and Moong, a bonus of Rs 200/- per quintal for Sesamum and a bonus of Rs 100/- per quintal for other kharif oilseeds namely, Groundnut-in-shell, Sunflower seed, Soyabean, and Nigerseed. Although the total sown area during kharif season under rice has increased from 37 million hectares to 38 million hectares between 2015-16 and 2016-17, the level at which it stands presently is still lower than what existed in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Please see table-1. It is worth noting that for paddy (common variety), the MSP recommended during 2016-17 kharif season has been Rs. 1470/- per quintal. The MSP for paddy (common variety) during 2015-16 kharif season was Rs. 1410/- per quintal. Similarly, for paddy (Grade A), the MSP recommended has been Rs. 1510/- per quintal during 2016-17 kharif season. The MSP for paddy (Grade A) during 2015-16 kharif season was Rs. 1450/- per quintal. From the table-1, it could be observed that there has been a dip in the gross area under cotton production from 11.5 million hectares to 10.2 million hectares between the kharif seasons of 2015-16 and 2016-17. Monsoon Rainfall As mentioned earlier, normal to excessive monsoon rainfall in different parts of India is responsible for increased area under kharif cultivation. A document entitled Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall from the India Meteorological Department (dated 12 April, 2016) predicts that the monsoon rainfall during the 2016 monsoon season (June to September) averaged over the country as a whole is likely to be 111% ± 5% of long period model average (LPMA). The document entitled Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast from the IMD (dated 8 September 2016), however, shows that for the country as a whole, the cumulative rainfall during this year’s monsoon upto 7 September has been 4 percent below the Long Period Average (LPA). The same document shows that the cumulative rainfall during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions north-west India and central India have been 2 percent and 3 percent above the LPA, respectively. The cumulative rainfall during the span 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016 in the regions south Peninsula and east & north-east India have been 11 percent and 14 percent below the LPA, respectively. Chart 1: Monsoon Rainfall (mm) received by various states and UTs during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016   Source: Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please click here to access The chart-1 shows that excessive monsoon rainfall was received by east Madhya Pradesh, west Madhya Pradesh, east Rajasthan, west Rajasthan and Haryana during the period 1 June, 2016 to 7 September, 2016. Deficient monsoon rainfall took place in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, parts of north-east, coastal Karnataka and parts of Gujarat & Daman.      The chart-2 shows the distribution of cumulative rainfall received by the country from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016. Chart 2: Distribution of Cumulative Rainfall (mm) for the country (from 1 June, 2016 to 11 September, 2016)       Source: India Meteorological Department, www.imd.gov.in According to the Central Water Commission, the live water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on 8 September, 2016 has been 108.104 BCM, which is 69 percent of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs. The live storage available in 91 reservoirs as per the 8 September, 2016 Bulletin is 117 percent of the live storage of corresponding period of last year and 97 percent of storage of average of last ten years. References Press Release: Kharif crop sowing crosses 1054 lakh hectare areas, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 9 September, 2016, please click here to access   Press release: Consumer Price Index numbers on Base 2012=100 for Rural, Urban and Combined for the month of August 2016, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, 12 September, 2016, please click here to access Press Release: Current status of south-west monsoon 2016 and forecast, India Meteorological Department, 8 September, 2016, please click here to access India Meteorological Department press releases, http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/press_release.php Brief note on live storage of 91 reservoirs in the country (week ending 8 September, 2016), Central Water Commission, please click here to access Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for Kharif Crops of 2016-17 season, Press Information Bureau/ Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), 1 June, 2016, please click here to access   Long Range Forecast for the 2016 Southwest Monsoon Season Rainfall, India Meteorological Department, 12 April, 2016, Please click here to access Economic Survey 2015-16 Statistical Appendix, please click here to access Inflation down, RBI rate cut hopes up -Asit Ranjan Mishra, Livemint.com, 13 September, 2016, please click here to access Kharif crop planting jumps 4% year on year -Madhvi Sally, The Economic Times, 9 September, 2016, please click here to access Kharif sowing till date 4.2 per cent higher than last year, The Hindu Business Line, 9 September, 2016, please click here to access Image Courtesy: Himanshu Joshi