The Rain Impact
A late season surge in monsoon rain may help rabi crops, but the real impact on farmers will depend on remunerative pricing.
by Joe C Mathew
Oct 16, 2017
2 minutes
In a country like India that depends heavily on rain fed irrigation, the southwest monsoon has always been critical for the agriculture sector. Conditions were relatively favourable this year (June September 2017), leading to a cumulative rainfall that was only 5 per cent below the long period average or
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