Geoscience Reference
In-Depth Information
ChApteR tWO
Climate change and
agromet advisory
services in Indian
agriculture
Rakesh Singh Sengar and H.S. Bhadoria
Contents
Abstract
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2.1 Introduction
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Global climate change
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2.2
Projected impacts of climate change on Indian
agriculture
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2.3
Adaptation and mitigation framework: The need to
consider the emerging scenario
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2.4
Why is agro-meteorological advisory services
required in India?
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2.5
Role of weather forecasting in agricultural
management
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2.6
Development history of weather forecasting based
agro-advisory service
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2.7
Major aspects of agro-advisory service
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2.8
Future strategies
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References
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Abstract
The improved estimates of global change impacts on
global-scale crop yield trends will require several sci-
entific advances. Some, such as predicting the rates of
global temperature increase or the behaviour of farmers
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