The Hindu Business Line : Central India share keeps rain deficit at bay

Central India's profitable outing (+18 per cent) up till now during the ongoing season has kept one end up amidst a torrent of deficit rainfall figures reported from elsewhere in the country as the monsoon progressed mid-way into the third quarter.

The deficit (in percentage figures) totted up by the remaining three homogenous regions of the country is as follows: Northwest - 2; Northeast - 25 and Southern Peninsula - 9. This pattern is unprecedented, according to Dr Akhilesh Gupta of the Department of Science and Technology.

What baffles meteorologists is the fact that the monsoon gateways of Kerala and the north-eastern States have continued to post notable deficits - 23 per cent and 25 per cent respectively. The Arunachal Pradesh and Assam and Meghalaya sub-divisions in the Northeast have run up deficits in excess of 40 per cent. Similarly, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry and Andaman and Nicobar are in the red to the tune of 42 per cent each

This is strikingly in contrast with the scenario in Central India where a string of criss-crossing monsoon systems struck a nagging line to dump their contents. Some of the big rainfall sessions reported from sub-divisions in the region (in percentage figures) for the week ending August 9 are as follows.

Gujarat - (+170); Konkan and Goa - (+180); Madhya Maharashtra - (+338); Marathwada - (+535); and Vidarbha (+184). Contiguous met divisions of West Rajasthan - (+91); West Madhya Pradesh (+37); Coastal Andhra (233) and Telengana (405) also made major gains.

AGRO ADVISORY

Meanwhile, the National Centre for Medium Term Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) advised farmers in Central India to provide adequate drainage for oilseed, pulse, sugarcane and cotton crops.

Where rains have not fallen in excess, paddy transplantation should be taken up vigorously.

Short duration pulses like black gram, green gram, cowpea and sunflower (oil seed) may be sown in areas where traditionally sown crops could not be taken up. This is also an ideal time for transplanting vegetable nursery for chilli, brinjal, mid-season cauliflower and tomato.

Sunday's well marked `low' over Chhattisgarh and neighbourhood has moved northwest to East Madhya Pradesh. The system is likely to move slowly further in a west-northwest direction. Widespread rainfall with heavy to very heavy falls at a few places and isolated extremely heavy falls are likely over Southwest Madhya Pradesh during the next 24 hours.

WIDESPREAD FALL

Fairly widespread rainfall with isolated heavy to very heavy falls are also likely over northwest Madhya Pradesh, north Marathwada, north Madhya Maharashtra, southeast Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Konkan and Goa, during next 2-3 days.

The other resident `low' over the southern parts of West Rajasthan has shifted itself to Kutch and neighbourhood. Under its influence, fairly widespread rainfall with isolated heavy to very heavy falls likely over Saurashtra and Kutch during the next 24 hours.

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