India's monsoon season rains were set to cover the whole country by the weekend, according to meteorological department officials, allowing farmers in northern states to begin planting of summer-sown crops a week earlier than normal.
But over the weekend the rains resumed and by Tuesday they had reached other parts of the country, except for some areas in the northern states of Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana, a senior official at the India Meteorological Department told Reuters.The rains revival during the past few days had reduced the rainfall deficit for the June-September season to 23% from 33% a week ago, IMD data showed.
Many north-eastern, central and northern states are likely to receive heavy rainfall this week, which would bring the deficit below 20%, a second IMD official said. Planting of paddy, cotton, soybean, pulses and other summer-sown crops were delayed, but sowing would gain momentum from this week, said a senior government official, who declined to be named.
The IMD has forecast an average amount of rainfall for the entire four-month season despite the formation of anA strong El Nino, marked by a warming of the sea surface on the Pacific Ocean, can cause severe drought in Southeast Asia, India and Australia. The emergence of El Nino weather patterns triggered back-to-back droughts in 2014 and 2015 for only the fourth time in over a century, pushing many Indian farmers into poverty.
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