Monsoon rains have covered most parts of cane, cotton, and soybean fields in western India and some parts of rice-sowing areas in central and northern India,  A shortfall in monsoon rains has narrowed to 37% of the long-term average against 44% between June 1 and June 19, as the office said. (IMD ),Conditions are now favourable for the southwest monsoon to further advance into the western state of Gujarat, and a few more parts of the central state of Madhya Pradesh and northern states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.