Thursday, April 19, 2007

India May Get Above Normal Rainfall This Year, State-Owned Researcher Says

(Bloomberg) -- India's monsoon, a four-month rainy season that supports a fifth of Asia's fourth-biggest economy, may be above normal this year, likely boosting farm output and helping the government slow prices that reached a two-year high.

The rains that water rice, sugarcane, soybean, peanut and lentil crops will be more than normal, B.N. Goswami, director of Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, said yesterday in a phone interview from Pune, a western Indian city.


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