In Madhya Pradesh, attention is already turning to the rice harvest, due in October.
Uttar Pradesh (UP), home to 185m, expects its main rice harvest to be down by 60%.
In Southeast Asia, up to 80 percent of the rice harvest is lost, the group noted.
The Angklung is closely related to traditional customs, arts and cultural identity in Indonesia, played during ceremonies such as rice planting, harvest and circumcision.
Most of the learners are farmers and require time off from learning to plant and harvest rice in June, July, August, December and January so that they have extra classes in the other months to ensure that the course is completed.
This key component of the festival takes the form of ritual dancing to flute music and drums for an abundant harvest of rice crops.
It is a key component of the festival and takes the form of ritual dancing to flute music and drums for an abundant harvest of rice crops.
The result, in the case of staple crops, is higher yields in tougher conditions: a hectare of rice, a C3 plant, produces a harvest of no more than eight tonnes, whereas maize, a C4 plant, yields as much as 12 tonnes.
When the harvest is poor, the government imports rice from Vietnam and Thailand and the market price drops.
In the Akiu no Taue Odori, residents of the town of Akiu in northern Japan pray for a good harvest by simulating in dance the actions involved in transplanting rice.
The twice-yearly ceremony is unique among the harvest rituals of Asia in that the master of the house invites the deity of the rice field into his home, behaving as though the invisible spirit were really present.
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