Jun 29 2009 11:13AM
MUMBAI, June 29 (Reuters) - India's south-west monsoon has covered western state of Maharashtra and conditions are favourable for its progress over central and northern India, the weather department said on Monday.
"Conditions are favourable for further advance of southwest monsoon over some more parts of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Orissa and remaining parts of West Bengal and Sikkim and some parts of Bihar, Jharkhand and East Uttar Pradesh during next 48 hours," the India Meteorological Department said on its website.
Maharashtra is India's biggest producer of sugarcane, kharif pulses and second biggest producer of cotton and soybean.
Rainfall during June 1 to June 24 was 52.8 mm, 54 percent below the normal rainfall, the meteorological department said last week. The weather office said last Wednesday total rainfall for the crucial June-September monsoon would be only 93 percent of the long-term average, coming in below normal for the first time in four years
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