India’s Agriculture minister Shard Pawar on Friday said country’s monsoon rains remain weak in major corn and sugarcane producing areas.
Speaking in Parliament, Pawar said Bihar, the country's leading corn producer, and Uttar Pradesh, which normally produces more than half of India's sugarcane, received less rains than average so far.
India’s Meteorological department has forecast only scanty rain in these regions in the next three days, and from July 26 it has predicted widespread rains only in northeastern India and the west coast.
India's cotton, corn and oilseeds sowing was almost normal despite deficient monsoon rains this year, but sugarcane planting had dropped by 122,000 hectares from a year ago.
The June-September monsoon rains began with an exceptionally dry phase in the first five weeks, but rainfall has improved in the past two weeks in most parts of the country.
Total rainfall in India was 15 percent above normal in the week to July 22, but was still 19 percent below normal for the June -July
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