Kharif

Food grain coverage has improved, but excess rainfall risks damaging standing crops in key producing states.

Excess rainfall likely hit sowing of coarse cereals and pulses

While rice sowing has surged, erratic rains in key states have likely slowed coarse cereal and pulse acreage

India began diversifying away from China before 2025 halt in fertiliser shipments

China’s share in India’s DAP imports fell to 18.5% in FY25 from over 47% in FY19; zero shipments recorded in first five months of 2025

Higher crop output expected in 2025 but uneven distribution of rains could be a spoiler: Govt source

Early monsoons do not necessarily always translate into higher production, though such results are probable and expected by the government, an official told Moneycontrol. There needs to be caution in such conditions as some areas might be prone to flooding or drought, resulting in crop destruction.

Punjab plans to diversify 12,000 hectares of paddy area to kharif maize crop this year

Agriculture minister Gurmeet Singh Khuddian said Bathinda, Sangrur, Pathankot, Gurdaspur, Jalandhar and Kapurthala districts will spearhead the pilot project, targeting 12,000 hectares for paddy-to-maize diversification.

Cabinet raises paddy MSP by Rs 69 per quintal to Rs 2,369 for 2025-26 Kharif season

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said, "..MSP has been approved by the Cabinet for the Kharif marketing season 2025-26. The total amount is estimated to be around Rs 2,07,000 Crores. For every crop, cost plus 50 percent has been taken into consideration."

Food inflation expected to ease by Q4 on better prospects of harvest: MPC Minutes

Beyond the short-term, the outlook for food inflation is becoming more favourable with improvement in kharif and rabi season prospects, said RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das

MC Daily Monsoon Tracker: Heavy rains spell trouble on price front

Central India and some parts of north saw a rise in rainfall activity over the past week even as monsoon has begun to retreat

MC Daily Monsoon Tracker: Reservoir levels remain at 13% above normal as India stays rainfall surplus

Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Bihar are the only states with lower water capacity compared with normal reservoir levels

MC Daily Monsoon Tracker: Rainfall surplus below 6% for fifth straight day

Rainfall deficit widens further to 29 percent for the farm state of Punjab and remains a high 28 percent for Bihar

MC Daily Monsoon Tracker: Rain surplus remains above 5% as the monsoon enters last leg

Since June, 27 states have received normal or above-normal rainfall, while nine states are still seeing a shortfall

MC Daily Monsoon Tracker: Kharif sowing rises 0.8%, rainfall surplus dries out to 29-day low

Among the nine states experiencing deficit rainfall, Nagaland and Manipur had 32 percent deficit, followed by Arunachal Pradesh and Bihar at 30 and 28 percent

MC Daily Monsoon Tracker: Rainfall surplus narrows to its lowest in 28 days

Number of states facing rainfall deficit increases to nine from seven in the previous week

MC Daily Monsoon Tracker: Reservoir levels unchanged at 18% above normal

Rainfall surplus is below 7 percent for the first time in September. Manipur has the highest rainfall deficit among states at 31 percent

MC Daily Monsoon Tracker: Rainfall surplus falls below 7.5% for the first time in 10 days

Kharif sowing remains higher than the normal acreage

MC Daily Monsoon Tracker: Kharif sowing above five-year average at 109.7 million hectares

Paddy sowing up 2.1 percent from the five-year average at 41 million hectares but pulses down 6.1 percent at 12.8 million hectares

Agri trade policy needs to be more agile to keep pace with rural recovery

Kharif output appears promising and government has already begun to tweak trade policy to reflect ground reality in soybean. There’s a compelling argument to do the same for rice and sugarcane

MC Daily Monsoon Tracker: 7 states, union territories remain deficient even as rainfall situation improves

For a fortnight now, India's monsoon rain surplus remains above 7 percent

MC Daily Monsoon Tracker: Reservoir levels stay at 18% above normal as rainfall surplus widens

Reservoir levels are highest in the southern region at 35 percent above normal, northern India has 17 percent deficit

MC Daily Monsoon Tracker: Rainfall surplus scales season's highest level of 8.3%

Sixteen states in the country receive normal rainfall; eight states remain rainfall-deficient

MC Daily Monsoon Tracker: 28 states, UTs have got normal or above normal rain this season

Southern and central Indian states have got more rain than average, while some parts of east and northwest remain rain deficient

MC Daily Monsoon Tracker: Kharif sowing catches up with 5-year average

Sowing has been higher than the previous year. On September 9, kharif acreage was 2.2 percent higher at 109.2 million hectares

MC Daily Monsoon Tracker: Reservoir levels remain 18% above normal on surplus rainfall

Karnataka, Gujarat which have over 20 percent reservoir capacity, have also witnessed significant gains in acreage

MC Daily Monsoon Tracker: Kharif sowing shows massive rise in Karnataka, Gujarat, Rajasthan

Karnataka pips MP and Maharashtra to emerge as one of the top pulses producers; replaces UP as the third-largest coarse cereals producer

MC Daily Monsoon Tracker: Rainfall surplus widens to the season's highest level of 7.8%

Six of the eight states and union territories in the southern region have got excessive rain