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| IMD admits to inaccurate rain forecast | 09-OCT-09 |
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| The India Meteorological Department (IMD) today admitted that its long range seasonal forecast of the southwest monsoon this season had been inaccurate and that it had overestimated the actual rainfall situation. |
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| Rain revival to breathe life into standing crops | 20-AUG-09 |
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| With the revival of the monsoon in the country’s major food bowl of north-west, as also in the eastern states, since the third week of August and many other regions subsequently, the concern about the survival of the standing crops has abated. But this may not help much in improving crop coverage in the current kharif which is rather low, especially in case of paddy (down 5.6 million hectares) and groundnut (down by over one million hectares). |
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| Poor monsoon due to El Nino winds from Pacific | 19-AUG-09 |
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| When the World Metereological Organisation (WTO) warned our weather experts in June that a poor monsoon was coming , and also told them why, the latter wouldn’t agree. Now they do. |
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| Rain deficit narrows in grain bowl areas | 19-AUG-09 |
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| Monsoon deficit in drought-struck northwest Indian states narrowed after rains returned to the country’s biggest grain and sugar cane growing region after a two-week lull, a weather bureau official said. |
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| Retail food prices up 32% in June-July | 12-AUG-09 |
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| Retail food prices have surged by up to 32 per cent after the South West Monsoon hit India in the last week of May, with poor rain compounding the problem, adding to consumer worries. |
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| Castor area in Gujarat may decline this year | 11-AUG-09 |
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| As per the data available with the state agriculture department, total area covered under castor is 2.02 lakh hectares at present. It may be mentioned here that Gujarat had seen sowing of castor in more than 4 lakh hectares in 2008-09, while the normal castor acreage in the state is 3.73 lakh hectares. |
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| Rains may be weakest in seven years: IMD | 11-AUG-09 |
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| After being in denial mode, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) today pared its forecast for a second time in three months and said state governments were free to announce “drought”. This came amid widespread concerns that the monsoon rains, the main source of irrigation for farmers, may, in fact, be the weakest in more than seven years. |
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| Near normal rainfall paves way for optimism | 16-JUL-09 |
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| The fear of a possible drought this year, that persisted till almost the end of June, has now given way to cautious optimism about not only a near normal monsoon rainfall but also a near normal kharif harvest. |
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| Pawar says monsoon prediction is good | 14-JUL-09 |
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| A presentation on the progress of monsoon by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has made the government confident this year will be a good crop year, but everything depends on rains in the next seven days. |
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| Still hazy | 06-JUL-09 |
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| When the Indian Metrological Department (IMD) forecasted that the monsoon this year will be “below normal,” people were worried. From the agriculture perspective, monsoon is critical considering that a large part of the arable land (available for farming) is dependent on rains or does not have access to irrigation infrastructure for growing crops. |
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