Winter rain likely to hit rabi crops, but only in isolated pockets

According to the official IMD, India had over January and February got 22% more than the average rainfall in 2019

An extended winter, with bouts of rain, has raised worry of a fall in the final yield of some rabi crops. However, experts say barring a few places, the showers haven’t been enough to cause large-scale damage to most standing cereal or horticulture crops, except for mustard in some parts of Rajasthan. 

Ground reports did say the standing rabi crop was flattened in some places of Madhya Pradesh and western Uttar Pradesh in the rain over these regions in the past few days but the actual impact is still being assessed.

In the post-monsoon October to December period, rain was