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Statsguru: Farm activity to MGNREGA wages, monsoon 2020 gives hope

Rains do swivel between normal, deficient and excess across years, but good rains in times of severe contraction in the economy are a big relief

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Sowing has improved due to a largely good monsoon, though temporal variations are detrimental to productivity, and extreme events have caused physical damage to crops in key states

Abhishek Waghmare Pune

3 min read Last Updated : Sep 14 2020 | 6:10 AM IST

The Southwest monsoon has passed 100 days of its 2020 journey, bestowing India with 7 per cent more rainfall than the seasonal average. Rains do swivel between normal, deficient and excess across years, but good rains in times of severe contraction in the economy are a big relief.

The spatial distribution of rainfall across districts, however, is uneven. Chart 1 (map) shows how southern peninsular areas, Gujarat and Rajasthan, and the rain shadow regions of Maharashtra have got a bounty this time. But districts in Madhya Pradesh, one of India's top farming states, received deficient rains, in addition to

Topics : Indian monsoon MGNREGA Indian Economy farm sector agriculture sector India GDP growth Kharif season sowing southwest monsoon and Kharif sowing

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