NIPA Climatic Variability: Impacts on Agriculture and Allied Sectors

The book is been divided into 5 major categories: Weather & Agromet Service / Pest & Diseases / Climatic influences over Agriculture & Horticultural crops / Climatic influences over Animal Husbandry and Fisheries / ICT application in Agriculture. The book covers the detail information on the probable impacts of climatic variabilty on various agricultural and horticultural crops with pest and disease incidences and their remedial measures. The effect of climate change in animal husbandry sector particularly summer infertility, productivity and disease spectrum is elucidated in a lucid and practical way. Fisheries both inland and marine are also taken into account considering fish productivity and disease incidence. Forewarning models with weather forecast are also described in the book with special emphasis to develop a strategy for Resilient Agriculture. ICT application in Agriculture has also found a place in the book, which is a compendium of the entire gamut of the potential impacts on Agriculture and allied sectors thus suggesting the ways to combat weather vagaries.