Dry-land Agriculture in India
An Agroclimatological and Agrometeorological Perspective
Description:... Agro-climatological and agro-meteorological studies play an important role in the improvement of crop production in the seasonally dry areas. In India still around 60% of the arable land under cultivation is at the mercy of Rain God or Rainfed. Agricultural meteorology, when properly used, assist in both the farmers at the filed level and planners at the regional and national level with better cost-benefit ratio for the all climate-related recommended practice. The three important areas that require the assistance of agrometeorologists under this condition are weather forecasting, crop planning and crop forecasting. This book deals with extensive review of model, method and practice of (a) climatic and agro-climatic zonation, (b) weather forecasting for agriculture, (c) crop planning, (d) crop forecasting, using agro-metorological procedure, etc.
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