Fall in crop sowing levels due to below average monsoon could have a 'downside risk' to the economic growth forecast for the current fiscal (2012-13), experts have said.

According to two separate res

Despite deficient monsoon rains, the country's foodgrains output this year is likely to surpass that of the 2009 drought year, the government said on Thursday.

Monsoon rains have been 15 per cent def

India's monsoon rains were above average in the past week for the first time in the current season, the weather office said, as the downpours resumed after a worrying fortnight-long pause over the cen