India relies on the June-September rainy season to produce food for its 1.2 billion people, as more than half the nation’s crop land isn’t irrigated. Timely rain is crucial to boosting incomes of the 742 million people living in rural areas in an economy already forecast by the central bank to expand at the slowest pace in seven years.
The monsoon weather system revived late last month after a two week lull caused by tropical cyclone Aila, which lashed the nation’s east coast on May 25.
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