New Delhi: The meteorological department is expecting a good a good monsoon, which means a good food grain supply and some respite from rising inflation.
The monsoons will set over the southern coast in June.
The department has closely studied eight global and local parameters before forecasting the course southwest monsoon would take and the quantum of rains in the four-month season ending September.
The department will announce its official long-range monsoon forecast for the season on April 17.
The Meteorological Department last week projected that June-September's rain, vital for farmers, was 105 per cent of its long period average (LPA). The rainfall was eight per cent above LPA over central India and four per cent above LPA over northeast India, he said.
The June-September monsoon is crucial for summer-sown crops like rice, cotton, guar seed oilseeds and sugarcane, which are planted in July and harvested in September-October.
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