NEW DELHI, July 21 | Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:45am EDT
(Reuters) – India’s key monsoon rains were 7 percent above normal in the week to July 20, improving from about a fifth below average rains in the previous week, the weather office said on Thursday.
India’s June to September monsoon rains are crucial to crop production in 60 percent of the country that does not have adequate irrigation. (Reporting by Ratnajyoti Dutta; editing by Malini Menon)
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