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Cotton sowing down 12% in India as monsoon arrives late

24/06/2019
Monsoon rains have begun to arrive in many parts of India, later than usual. Farmers are now accelerating cotton sowing, having delayed this activity owing to a lack of rain.

Reuters has said cotton planting was 12% behind usual levels across India going into the last week in June and that rain levels are 38% down on normal levels. However, the monsoon, responsible for delivering 70% of India’s annual rainfall, had covered around half of India’s territory by that point.

It said cotton sowing had been delayed by about two weeks in many parts of the country.

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