India received 14% below-normal monsoon rainfall through August, with 603.7 mm recorded against the long-period average of 700.7 mm.

India's monsoon rainfall deficit has widened to nearly fourteen percent. Erratic rainfall has hurt kharif crop sowing across several regions. Total area under summer-sown crops…

India's August rainfall registered sixteen percent below average, its lowest in three years. The El Nino weather pattern suppressed the monsoon, widening the rainfall deficit.…