As India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted favourable monsoon for 2018, Meteorological experts in Jharkhand believe that conditions for Kharif crop will be favorable and appealed the farmers to maintain timings for sowing and transplanting seeds and saplings respectively to get maximum produce. They claimed that North-Eastern part of India have been the most benefitted, whenever IMD has predicted favorable monsoon for the Country.
According to IMD, the country is likely to receive a strong monsoon in July and dip only slightly below normal in August, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasted, calming concerns of a mid-season downturn forecast.
“North – Eastern part of India including Jharkhand will be the most privileged State as per the prediction of a favorable monsoon by IMD and we expect that it will be normal by 90-95 per cent,” said Agro-meteorologist at Birsa Agriculture University A Wadood. Already it has rained a lot, which has been helping the farmers in tilling their fields, he added.
“Now, when the situation looks favourable farmers have to maintain timing and sow seeds early so that the process of transplantation of saplings could be done till July 31,” Wadood said. Timing is most important for getting good kharif crop, which the farmers have to maintain at any cost, he added.
“For that, they have to make all preparations by tilling their fields ahead of the onset of monsoon,” said the Agro-meteorologist. There are very less changes of monsoon getting weaker this year as all conditions are said to be normal by the IMD, he added.
Interestingly, the IMD has kept its prediction of “normal” monsoon unchanged in its second stage long-range forecast. The monthly rainfall over the country as a whole is likely to be 101 percent of its long Period Average (lPA) during July, and 94 per cent of lPA during August – both with a slight variation of plus or minus nine percent.
The IMD has forecast that the Country is likely to receive a strong monsoon in July and dip only slightly below normal in August calming concerns of a mid-season downturn forecast. Meanwhile, the rainy season arrived in India almost three days ahead of the forecast with Kerala coasts receiving the first showers of the Southwest monsoon.
The southwest monsoon is responsible for about 70 per cent of the country's annual rainfall and is critical to the economy, which is still largely dependent on agriculture.