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印度季风变幻莫测,严重冲击农作物收成,引发消费放缓担忧India’s erratic monsoon plays havoc with harvests, raising fears of spending slowdown

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对于阿贾伊·库马尔·楚塔尼(Ajay Kumar Chutani)来说,他的家族自20世纪70年代起就在印度北部市场城镇卡尔纳尔(Karnal)经营一家纱丽店,季风过后的几个月始终是他生意最繁忙的时期。在这些凉爽的几周里,他出售足够数量的丝绸和刺绣棉布,以度过随后的淡季,因为务农家庭正在为婚礼和繁忙的节日季做准备。

For Ajay Kumar Chutani, whose family has run a sari shop in the north Indian market town of Karnal since the 1970s, the months after the monsoon are always his busiest. During these cool weeks, he sells enough lengths of silk and embroidered cotton to tide him over the leaner seasons, as farming families prepare for weddings and the frenetic festival season.

今年,由于雨季降雨量不稳定,且全国降雨量为2015年以来最低,楚塔尼正密切关注……

This year, after erratic rains through the wet season and the country’s weakest rainfall since 2015, Chutani is keeping a close eye on the...