New Delhi / Mumbai: Kharif sowing has been delayed due to a delay in the monsoon and it is likely to speed up in July as India would receive satisfactory rainfall in the first 10 days of July, predicts an official from Skymet, reports Cnbctv18.
Mahesh Palawaqt, Vice-President of Meteorology and Climate Change, Skymet Weather said, “These years the onset of monsoon was weak and was stalled due to Cyclone Biparjoy but now the winds are strengthening and there will be satisfactory rain at least till July 10.”
“Monsoon will reach Maharashtra in three to four days and would progress steadily in other parts of the state slowly. The Kharif sowing has been delayed and would speed up within the next few days,” he said.
Till June 16, 49.48 heaters of the area were sown with Kharif corps this year which is 49% less than the area sown the same week last year.
According to IMD officials monsoon has reached the Konkan region. Dr Sushma Nair, a scientist at the IMD said, the monsoon reached Ratnagiri on June 11 but it was stalled there till Sunday evening.
