In the coming five days, India's southern coastal Kerala expected entry of the monsoon. This delayed the monsoon season as in the previous year. The rain is essential for survival for two-thirds of the 1.25 billion Indians who live off agriculture. After the monsoon hits the coast of Kerala, is the rainy season for four months. Last year started the season with a delay of six days and the missing rainfall resulted in a smaller harvest.
The Indian Ministry of agriculture has already developed contingency plans for 580 districts for the case that the rain will later. Usually the monsoon reaches mid-June half of the subcontinent and the entire country until mid-July. Thus, the farmer can order their summer fruits like rice, soybeans, sugar and cotton.
In April, meteorologists due to the El Nino phenomenon of less for India rain had predicted. The Indian Institute of tropical meteorology provides in particular for the soybean area in the Centre of India due to the later entry of the monsoon of less rain.
