Climate Change and Agriculture : A Case Study on Cotton Crop of Vidarbha region in India

This book is helpful to agriculturalist, meteorologist and the end user i.e farmer. The experimental studies carried out to assess the impact of climate change on cotton plants shows, increase in the root height at higher temperature; however, shoot height, total height and biomass indicated decrease at higher temperature. Moreover prevailing weather conditions in the study region, the most appropriate crop for the region was determined by using Eco-Crop model, which can sustain the prevailing climatic conditions is cotton crop. It was also observed from reconnaissance survey that significantly (P