India has downgraded this year's monsoon forecast to 88 percent of the long-term average, Earth Sciences Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Tuesday, raising fears of a drought in the country where nearly half of farmland lack irrigation facilities.
India in April forecast monsoon rains at 99 percent of the long-term average.
The forecast has an error margin of 4 percentage points.
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