An average or normal monsoon means rainfall between 96 and 104 per cent of a 50-year average of 89 cm.
Monsoon rains were 4 per cent below average in the week ended on July 27, the India Meteorological Department said today.
So far, the June-Sept monsoon has delivered average rains.
An average or normal monsoon means rainfall between 96 and 104 per cent of a 50-year average of 89 centimetres.
The monsoon is crucial for rain-fed farm sector that accounts for nearly 15 per cent of country's $2 trillion economy.
Farmers plant crops such as rice, soybeans, cotton and pulses in the summer-sowing season that starts in June.
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