Early Monsoon Onset to Aid India Cotton, Rice Sowing
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India’s monsoon, which accounts for four-fifths of the nation’s annual rains, reached the eastern coast three days early, boosting prospects for planting of rice, cotton and corn.
Monsoon has set in over parts of south Bay of Bengal, Andaman and Nicobar islands and most parts of the Andaman Sea and condition are “favorable” for further advance over the next 48 hours, the India Meteorological Department said in a statement on its website. These areas usually receive rain about May 20, according to the bureau.