The monitoring period covers mainly the harvesting season of Kharifcrops. Crop condition development was below both the previous year and the five-yearaverage. Rainfall (RAIN) was below average for the country including Assam(-16%), Bihar (-60%), Chhattisgarh (-59%), Gujarat (-56%), Goa (-11%), HimachalPradesh (-34%), Jharkhand (-80%), Maharashtra (-21%), Madhya Pradesh(-39%),Odisha (-57%), Rajasthan(-42%), West Bengal(-73%) and Sikkim (-50%). Severalstates experienced above average rainfall including Tamil Nadu (+57%),Uttarakhand (+37%), Karnataka (+14%), Kerala (+7%), Haryana (+25%), Nagaland(+18%) and Mizoram (+70%).

Low rainfall triggered the negative (-18%) biomass accumulation(BIOMASS) for the country mainly in Bihar (-54%), Chhattisgarh (-57%), Gujarat(-64%), Himachal Pradesh (-27%), Jharkhand (-72), Maharashtra (-41%), Madhya Pradesh(-42%), West Bengal (-58%), Rajasthan (-58%) and Odisha (-48%). Temperature(TEMP, +0.6°C) and photosyntheticallyactive radiation (RADPAR,-1%) were close to average. 

In central and western India, both maximum VCI values below 0.5 and NDVIprofiles indicate poor crop condition (Figure 3.16). Overall, deficit rainfall resulted in thepoor crop condition for the country as a whole and reduced output isexpected. 

Figure3.16. India crop condition, October2015-January 2016