Kharif

"The efforts by farmers and the states to boost production during the rabi (winter) season in 2009-10 after the drought adversely affected the kharif (summer) crop are significant," said Mr. Basu, who led the government's drought-control measures in his previous job. ❋ Banikinkar Pattanayak (2010)

"The bigger decline would come only around October when the kharif crop (summer crop) is harvested and would boost agricultural output." ❋ Unknown (2010)

The kharif planting season (April-July) accounts for 54% of India's cultivable cropland of 260 million hectares; the rabi season (September-November) accounts for the rest. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"The fear is that half the country will be affected by drought," he adds, noting that if rains don't arrive by end-July, "the kharif [crop] is gone." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal, which collectively produce almost half of the country's kharif foodgrain and rice production, were the worst hit provinces, Crisil added. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As on July 10, sowing of kharif crops such as rice, groundnut, soybean and coarse cereals has been delayed in the states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Orissa and Punjab, Mr. Meena said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Worse, the forecast for the next 10 days, crucial for the sowing of the kharif crop, says the region can expect scanty rain at best. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mr. Meena said also that the impact on sowing of kharif crops will depend on the extent of deficiency in rainfall. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Economic Times No drought-like situation, but low rains a concern: Pawar Allaying fears that low rainfall in June and forecast of 'below normal' monsoon season could impact agriculture production in the country, food and agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Sunday said kharif sowing in most states was delayed by just a week and there was no drought-like situation anywhere. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"We need to be aware of the possibility that reduced production of kharif (summer-sown) crops in the current year may have an inflationary impact on prices of food items in the coming months," Mr. Singh said at a special meeting of federal and provincial officials earlier this week. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Had the rainfall weakened during this peak sowing season (June-July) for kharif crops, it was bound to have put pressure on the incomes of rural households. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Andhra Pradesh government clamped a kharif season levy target of 8.94 tonne, requiring its millers to give 75% of rice milled for local use as levy rice. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I did not like his reference to Shimon Peres as “senile” (kharif), but I also did not like at all his reference to Bin Jubayl, Marun Ar-Ras, and `Aytarun as muthallath ar-Rujulah (triangle of manhood), but then again I am a PC radical feminist. ❋ As'ad (2006)

Most farmers would expect to harvest about one metric ton of wheat during the winter (rabi) season and about one and a half metric tons of rice during the summer (kharif) season, or a total of two and a half metric tons of grain per hectare per year. ❋ Unknown (1970)

The early-sown rice yields the first-fruits of the _kharif_ harvest. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

So the kharif crops are largely fed by the monsoon rains.

There is the season we're in right now, which is the kharif season, and this is the monsoon period.

He said that despite adverse seasonal conditions like drought and floods, the State would register a record agriculture production of 155 lakh metric tonnes of food grains in the ongoing kharif. ❋ Unknown (2010)