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devastating for litchi, growing in areas/places having mild tropical and
subtropical climate.
High and frequent fluctuations in temperature, sunshine period, intense
rainfall, severe storm or cyclone have the ability to devastate litchi crop,
inundate, erode and leach orchard floor soil and ultimately damage the
crop.
6.3 CLIMATIC RESILIENCE STRATEGIES AND SUSTAINABLE
PRODUCTION
This fruit crop is very responsive to changes in different climate variables,
seasonal variation, but farmers and Scientists involvement in generating
short-term and midterm responses to cope with likely losses in yield and
quality by mitigating the ill effects are also on. In order to better man-
age these processes and practices, impacts need to be properly assessed
and improved adaptation strategies need to be tested, targeted and imple-
mented. During only recent few decades, the growing concern of climate
change and its impact has come to the forefront encompassing litchi pro-
duction too. The general decline in potential production as well as erratic
and inferior quality production in the recent past has warned to under-
stand the nature and magnitude of change and litchi production system.
Changes in seasonality may be one of the most difficult aspects of climate.
These changes can have profound impacts on vegetative and crop success
(Damour et al., 2007).
6.3.1 UNDERSTANDING OF IDEAL CLIMATIC CONDITION
The successful growing of litchi is an undertaking quite similar to some
perennial fruit culture but it is exacting as to specific climatic requirement
and thrive best and most productive in the subtropical to mild tropical
type of climates. Litchi requires cool, dry, frost-free winter during growth
and long summer with high relative humidity at the time of maturity. As,
various studies have indicated that under field conditions, temperature,
sunshine and soil moisture content are often correlated with the overall
plant performance (Singh et al., 2012). Frost-free, cool, and dry winters,
and humid summers, free from hot and dry winds characterize this grow-
