Monsoon rains lashed parts of northern India this week, releasing the capital, New Delhi, from the grips of a heat wave. The country waits for the June-through-September rains to spread across the country every year.
The rains have come late this year, triggering concerns that crop yields will be lower, pushing up inflation and hurting the economy. Farmers in India rely on the annual showers.
.The rains have come late this year, triggering concerns that crop yields will be lower, pushing up inflation and hurting the economy. Farmers in India rely on the annual showers.
Some analysts argue that all the hand-wringing over a delayed monsoon is overblown.
While droughts do not always lead to lower food production in India, how the government prepares for and reacts to a shortfall in rain can trigger big swings in food supplies. The government is already distributing fast-growing, drought-resistant varieties of rice and is expected to limit exports of rice and wheat in an effort to ensure adequate domestic supplies.
children played on a waterlogged
A fisherman waited to cast his net in the Dava River.
A milkman rode a motorcycle through the rains
Dark clouds hovered over the central part of New Delhi
Two men struggled to make it through a traffic jam with rising waters during rain showers
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