India’s monsoon has delivered 1% more rain than normal so far this year, but erratic distribution has flooded some areas and left others in drought, clouding the outlook for key summer-sown crops more than midway through the season, 在 Reuters.com 上写道 Rajendra Jadhav.
贸易商表示，尽管种植面积扩大，但降雨不均可能导致粮食产量下降，迫使印度增加食用油、糖和豆类的进口，并可能限制棉花、大米和饲料原料的出口。
“Where it is not necessary, rainfall is abundant. Here, we badly need rains, but we haven’t got them in a fortnight,” said Netaji Surywanshi, a soybean farmer from Maharashtra whose crop on 9 acres has started wilting during a critical growth phase.