{"id":86746,"date":"2019-04-26T15:58:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T10:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2019-04-26T15:58:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T10:28:28","slug":"near-normal-monsoon-may-boost-foodgrain-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/near-normal-monsoon-may-boost-foodgrain-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Near-normal monsoon may boost foodgrain production"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The government has targeted a modest increase in foodgrains production for the next crop year of 2019-20 after the Indian Meteorological Department(IMD) has forecast normal monsoon in 2019.<\/li><li>India Meteorological Department(IMD) had said that monsoon rains are expected to be normal in 2019 which is 96% of the Long Period Average (LPA).The IMD defines normal rainfall as between 96% and 104% of the Long Period Average(LPA).LPA (50 year average) of monsoon rains in India is 89 cm.<\/li><li>The target of foodgrains production for 2019-20 crop year has been set at 291.1 million tonnes comprising 147.9 MT in kharif season and 143.2 MT during rabi.<\/li><li>In India,there are two major cropping seasons: a) Kharif and b) Rabi. There is another cropping season Zaid i.e. summer season (March to June). Examples of Zaid cops are watermelon,bitter gourd etc.<\/li><li>The kharif cropping season is from July \u2013October during the south-west monsoon.Major Kharif crops include rice,maize,sorghum,groundnut etc.<\/li><li>Rabi cropping season extends from October-March (winter). Major Rabi crops are wheat, barley, oats etc. Wheat is the main Rabi crop in India. It is sown between late October and December; while the harvesting starts from April onwards.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has targeted a modest increase in foodgrains production for the next crop year of 2019-20 after the Indian Meteorological Department(IMD) has forecast normal monsoon in 2019. India Meteorological Department(IMD) had said that monsoon rains are expected to be normal in 2019 which is 96% of the Long Period Average (LPA).The IMD defines normal&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/near-normal-monsoon-may-boost-foodgrain-production\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Near-normal monsoon may boost foodgrain production<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4350,410],"class_list":["post-86746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-food-grain-production","tag-imd","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704679839},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}