India to receive below-average monsoon rains in next 2 weeks: Report
India to receive below-average monsoon rains in next 2 weeks: Report North-east and foothills of Himalaya could get good rainfall though, says official. C urrent Affairs :- India may get underneath normal precipitation in the following two weeks with a huge deficiency in the soybean and cotton developing focal and western areas, a climate office authority said on Thursday, raising worries over the yield of summer-planted harvests. Storm downpours are pivotal for ranch yield and financial development, as about 55% of India’s arable land is downpour sustained, and farming records for about 15% of a $2.5-trillion economy that is the third greatest in Asia. “Climate model is demonstrating inadequacy in precipitation over focal and western India in next about fourteen days,” said an authority with the India Meteorological Department (IMD), who declined to be named as he was not approved to talk with media. “The upper east and lower regions of Himalaya could get great precip...