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Empresas y finanzas

India's monsoon rains ease in past week ahead of retreat


    NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's monsoon rains were a quarter below average in the week to Sept. 17, the weather office said on Thursday, ahead of a delayed retreat of the rains expected from this weekend.

    A week earlier, rainfalls were 64 percent above average, the heaviest for the June-September monsoon season.

    On Wednesday, a senior weather official said the monsoon season was set to enter withdrawal phase by the weekend after a late surge had delayed the retreat by a fortnight, boosting output prospects for summer sown crops.

    (Reporting by Ratnajyoti Dutta; editing by Malini Menon)