Agrometeorological Approach to Sustainable Agriculture
by RS Mishra, Raj Bahadur
ISBN: 9789386615374
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Imprint : DAYA
Year : 2018
Price : Rs. 4495.00
Biblio : x+106p., figs., tabls., ind., 25cm
Author Profile
Dr. R.S. Mishra obtained his M.Sc. (Ag) Plant Pathology from Allahabad Agricultural Institute, Allahabad and Ph.D (Environmenal Botany) from Jamia Hamdard University, Delhi. Dr. Mishra is presently working as an Assistant Professor, Plant Pathology at N.D. University of Agriculture and Technology, Kumarganj, Faizabad (UP). He has more than 17 years of teaching and research experience. He obtained training from CRIDA, Hyderabad; IITM, Pune; and IARI, New Delhi on different aspects of Agrometeorol
About The Book
Weather and Climate is resource and considered as basic input or resources in agricultural planning, every plant process related with growth, development and yield of crop is affected by weather. Similarly every farm operation such as ploughing, land preparation, weeding, manuring, irrigation, spraying, dusting, harvesting, storage and transport of farm produce are affected by weather.
Agrometeorology is an inter disciplinary holistic science. It has numerous applications in agricultural resour
Table of Contents
Preface v
1. Introduction 1
2. Crop Growth Simulation Models and Regional
Agrometeorological Resources 5
3. Predictive Models for the Outbreak of Pests and Diseases 9
4. Expert Support System for Global Climatic Change and
Sustainable Agriculture 13
5. Alternative Strategy against Aberrant Weather Conditions 19
6. Development of Agrometeorological Forecast 23
7. Agrometeorological Advisory Services and Co-ordination
Research 27
8. Meteorological Disaster Management through
