-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: Sowing of kharif crops slowed down further in the third week of June, despite considerable progress in monsoon rains, with the total area sown falling by almost 24 per cent to 124.94 lakh hectares (lh) compared with 164.10 lh at this time last year. States have reported that till June 24, rice has been sown/transplanted on 19.86 lh (21.86 lh), pulses on 9.66 lh (12.19 lh)...
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Good rains likely over north India from June 26: IMD -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-Business Standard So far, in the southern Peninsula and northwest India, the southwest monsoon is around 15 per cent and three per cent above normal, respectively New Delhi: Northwest Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Punjab might get good rains from June 26 to July 10, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Thursday in its weather update. The southwest monsoon, according to IMD, has been around 18 per cent below normal...
More »Kharif sowing lags as monsoon makes slow progress -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com So far, an area of 8.4 million hectares has been sown, nearly 11% lower when compared with the 9.4 million hectares sown by this time last year New Delhi: A slower-than-normal progress of the south-west monsoon has impacted sowing of rain-fed kharif crops, shows data released by the agriculture ministry on Friday. So far, an area of 8.4 million hectares has been sown, nearly 11% lower when compared to 9.4 million...
More »Monsoon likely to gain momentum, advance further
-PTI After a making a slow progress, the southwest monsoon is expected to gain momentum and advance further into several parts of drought-hit Maharashtra and central India. “The southwest monsoon has further advanced into remaining parts of coastal Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Gangetic West Bengal, more parts of north interior Karnataka, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Jharkhand and Bihar,” the India Meteorological Department said. Secretary in the Ministry of Earth Sciences, M Rajeevan, said the last...
More »Retail inflation inches up to 5.76 per cent in May -KR Srivats
-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: A sharp spike in food articles inflation has led to May retail inflation inching up to 5.76 percent, weakening prospects of any RBI repo rate cut in August. This May 2016 print is higher than retail inflation of 5.01 percent in May last year and 5.47 percent in April this year. Food articles inflation jumped to 7.55 percent in May 2016 from 6.40 percent in previous month. The...
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