Monsoon: Monsoon rainfall in India arrives early, with a distinctive appearance of crops

The Weather Office said monsoon rainfall is expected to hit India’s southern coast five days earlier than usual on May 27, marking the earliest arrival in at least five years, raising hopes for a bumper harvest of crops such as rice, corn and soybeans. Monsoon is the lifeblood of the country’s $4 trillion economy, with nearly 70% of the rainwater requiring watering of farms and replenishing aquifers and reservoirs to India. Nearly half of India’s farmland, without any irrigation cover, depends on the rainfall from June to September to plant many crops each year.
In a military conflict between India’s most populous country and its neighbor, Pakistan and India, forecasts for early and abundant monsoon rainfall are expected to alleviate concerns about potential risks to food supply.
Summer rain usually begins around June 1 on the southernmost coast of Kerala State and spreads throughout the country in mid-July, triggering the cultivation of crops such as rice, corn, cotton, soybeans and sugar cane.

The Indian Meteorological Ministry said on Saturday that the monsoon attack in Kerala could be May 27 with a model error of four days.

Last year, the monsoon hit the coast of Kerala on May 30, with the highest rainfall in the entire summer since 2020, helping the country recover from the 2023 drought. Last month, India’s Meteorological Ministry predicted that the department dropped to above-average monsoons for the second consecutive year in 2025. This would be the 96% average and the 50-year average (30 years) (357% 50 years) (30% 50 years) (30%) (57%) (57%) (57% 50 years) (57% 57 years) (50 years) (57% 57 years) (50 years) (57 years) (50 years) (57 years) (57 years) (50 years) (57 years) (57 years) (57 years) (50 years of 57). season.

Early monsoon rains will encourage farmers of India’s largest rice exporter to start planting earlier. Reuters reported last week that bumper crops will limit any rebound in global rice prices this year.