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NEW DELHI - Indian farmers have planted 23.7 million hectares with summer-sown rice so far, according to the farm ministry’s latest data, up 1.71 per cent year-on-year, as crucial monsoon rains revived in July and helped farmers accelerate sowing.
Farmers typically start planting rice, corn, cotton, soybeans, sugarcane and peanuts, among other crops, from June 1, when monsoon rains are expected to begin drenching India. Sowing usually lasts until July and early August.India received 10 per cent below normal rains in June, but in some states, the rainfall deficit was as much as 60 per cent below average.
India’s weather office has forecast an average amount of rain in July despite the likely emergence of the El Nino weather pattern. In 2023, the delayed arrival of monsoon rains and lower rainfall in some southern, eastern and central states held back the planting of summer crops even as the monsoon covered the entire country nearly a week in advance.
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