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table 2.1 Agro-climatic regions/zones in India

S.no. Agro-climatic regions/zones States represented

1 Western Himalayan region Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir,

Uttarakhand

2 Eastern Himalayan region Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur,

Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim,
Tripura, West Bengal

3 Lower Gangetic plain region West Bengal

4 Middle Gangetic plain region Uttar Pradesh, Bihar

5 Upper Gangetic plain region Uttar Pradesh

6 Trans-Gangetic plain region Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab,

Rajasthan

7 Eastern plateau and hills region Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh,

Maharashtra, Orissa, West Bengal

8 Central plateau and hills region Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh

9 Western plateau and hills region Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra

10 Southern plateau and hills region Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu

11 East coast plains and hills region Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Pondicherry,

Tamil Nadu

12 West coast plains and ghat region Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra,

Tamil Nadu

13 Gujarat plains and hills region Gujarat, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman

and Diu

14 Western dry region Rajasthan

15 Island region Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep

Note: Planning Commission has identified 15 resource development regions in the coun-

try, 14 in the mainland and remaining one in the islands of Bay of Bengal and
Arabian Sea.

• Agro-meteorology may help farmers through weather

forecasting in agricultural activities such as seed sowing,
irrigation, spraying of chemicals, harvesting and so forth
(Figure 2.4).

2.5 Role of weather forecasting in agricultural
management

• Selection of crop and varieties (Maji et al. 2008)

• Land preparation and ratio management under crops and

varieties

• Deciding seed sowing and harvesting time of crops