Monsoon delay won't hit business: Jain Irrigation

Jain: It could. It is a matter of concern but it is still not time to panic because lot of farmers have still not sown a lot of seeds of whatever crops they wanted to do and even if rains come within let us say two-weeks maximum, then still good amount of output will come and the impact may be only about 5-10% depending on whatever the crop shifting takes place. For example let is say in Maharashtra lot of farmers are going for cotton. If the rains don't come for the next 2-3 weeks especially dry land farmers, they will try and do some sunflower, urad or any other short crops which can give them enough rain but people have lot of expectations - farmers especially because if you would have seen in the last year, farmers got very good prices for sugarcane, for cotton and so on. Within farmers there is this huge expectation that this year also would be good, so a lot of farmers wanting to go ahead and plant as soon as they can. 
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