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CLIMATE CHANGE AND AGRICULTURE
Editor: Dr. Sailabala Dei, Dr. Amtul Waris, Dr. A.K.Sinha, Dr. Anil Kumar, Dr. Pankaj Kumar, Surbhi Jain, Dr. Neha Pandey, Abhijeet Sharma, Amit Kumar Singh, Himanshu Shekhar Garg
Edition: 2021
ISBN: 978-81-925878-6-5
Publisher: PPD
Length: 205 pages.
Language Note: ENGLISH
Summary:
India is a land of extreme climates including its rainfall patterns which are
highly skewed. Most of the rainfall in India happens within a span of about
100 days during the Monsoons. Adding to the climate diversity are the
geographical variations which make India home to some of driest and wettest
places in the world. Go across any geographical entity in India and its
regions, is full of stories of one of the most drought prone regions in the
country. The frequency and intensity of drought has now increased in last few
decades. Agriculture in the region is heavily dependent on rain and it is a
diverse, complex, under-invested, risky and vulnerable preposition. In
addition, the agriculture in India also witnesses short-term heavy rain and
flooding in the fields which add to the uncertainties. These extremes gets
further complicated by the scarcity of water in the semi-arid region with poor
soil and low farm productivity.Number Of Quantity: