The south-west monsoon on Tuesday started withdrawing from parts of south-west Rajasthan and adjoining Kutch in Gujarat, with at least eight states, including rice bowl states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar reporting deficient rains.<\/p>\n
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Photograph: Ajay Verma\/Reuters<\/span><\/p>\n It was for the first time since 2016 that the monsoon started withdrawing in the third week of September.<\/p>\n “Southwest monsoon has withdrawn from parts of southwest Rajasthan & adjoining Kutch today, against its normal date of withdrawal from southwest Rajasthan of September 17,” the India Meteorological Department (IMD) tweeted.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The weather office said the conditions for withdrawal of monsoon – no rains for five days, formation of anti-cyclone and dry weather conditions over the region – were met.<\/p>\n “The line of withdrawal of the southwest monsoon passes through Khajuwala, Bikaner, Jodhpur and Naliya,” it said.<\/p>\n According to the weather office, India had received 7 per cent excess rains, but eight states – Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Delhi, Punjab, Tripura, Mizoram and Manipur – recorded deficit rainfall.<\/p>\n The south-west monsoon season begins on June 1 and continues till September 30.<\/p>\n India received 878.5 mm of rainfall between June 1 and September 20, which was 7 per cent higher than the normal rainfall of 822 mm for the period under review.<\/p>\n The deficient rains in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh has hit sowing for paddy in the states.<\/p>\n As of September 16, the area sown to paddy was 18.90 lakh hectares less than the previous year during the kharif season.<\/p>\n According to the agriculture ministry, area sown to paddy as on September 16 was 399.03 lakh hectares as against 417.93 lakh hectares last year.<\/p>\n Of the 75 districts in Uttar Pradesh, 13 are in the large deficient category (-60 to -99 per cent rain deficit) and 46 in the deficient category -20 to -59 per cent), but the state has good irrigation facilities which were deployed during the sowing operations.<\/p>\n As many as 20 districts in Jharkhand, 10 districts in Bihar and four districts in West Bengal have reported less than 75 per cent sowing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n<\/p>\n News From This Website <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"