MUMBAI - India's monsoon rains advanced into some more parts of southwest Bay of Bengal after stalling for the past 11 days at a far-flung island, weather department said on Tuesday (May 30). The monsoon, the lifeblood of the country's $3 trillion (S$4.1 trillion) economy, delivers nearly 70 per cent of the rain that India needs to water farms and...
MUMBAI - India's monsoon rains advanced into some more parts of southwest Bay of Bengal after stalling for the past 11 days at a far-flung island, weather department said on Tuesday .
Nearly half of India's farmland, without any irrigation cover, depends on the annual June-September rains to grow a number of crops.
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