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affects income from the rice-wheat system, there is a consider-
able socio-political resistance to its implementation. In recent
years, the prospect of climate changes has stimulated consider-
able research interest in attempting to predict how the produc-
tion of crops will be effected. The purpose of this review was
to provide an overview of the likely effect of climate change on
food production in India. Several studies projected an increase
or decrease in yields of cereal crops (rice, wheat, maize and
sorghum), oilseed and pulses crops (soybean, groundnut, chick-
pea, brassica (mustard) and pigeon pea) depending on interac-
tion of temperature and CO 2 changes, production environment,
season and location in India. Still climate change impact stud-
ies have not been conducted on several important crops in India
such as sugarcane, cotton, jute, sunflower, potato and onion and
so on, which may be done in the near future for better assess-
ment of Indian agriculture's vulnerability to climate change.
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