Tuesday, 11 October 2022 | Rajesh Kumar | New Delhi At a time when India is staring at a likely food grain shortage due to less sowing of kharif crops, especially paddy, unexpected rainfall in several States has damaged ready-for-harvesting crops such as rice, soya bean, cotton, pulses, and vegetables. This could further stoke inflation in the fifth largest economy in the world. It is expected that 15 to 20 per cent summer sown crops could be damaged due to unseasonal rain. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) data showed that India received 57.3 mm rainfall as against the normal