-The Hindu Business Line
The maximum crop damage was reported from Western Madhya Pradesh, which received 61 per cent surplus rains.
Excess monsoon rains and the floods caused by them affected crops in many States, including Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and Punjab, according to a kharif crop damage report released by private weather forecaster Skymet on Tuesday.
While 40 to 50 per cent of soyabean crop has been hit in Madhya Pradesh, which is the biggest producer of the oilseed, 30 to 40 per cent of groundnut and up to 30 per cent of cotton crops have been affected in Gujarat.
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