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Monsoon rains 18% below average in week to June 27

The rains had narrowed the deficit in the third week ending June 20 to 5 percent below average

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Reuters New Delhi

India's crucial monsoon rains were 18 percent below average in the week to June 27, the weather office said on its website on Thursday, reflecting a lull phase over oilseed-growing areas of central India.

The monsoon rains are important for farm output and economic growth as about 55 percent of the south Asian nation's arable land is rain-fed, and the farm sector accounts for about 15 percent of a nearly $2-trillion economy, Asia's third-biggest.

The rains had narrowed the deficit in the third week ending June 20 to 5 percent below average, after recording 36 and 50 percent below average rainfall in the first two weeks of the four-month long rainy season.

 

 

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First Published: Jun 28 2012 | 1:42 PM IST

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