Climate Variability: Impacts on Agriculture and Allied Sectors

The effect of climate change in animal husbandry sector particularly summer infertility, productivity and disease spectrum is elucidated in a lucid and practical way. Fisheries both inland and marine are also taken into account considering fish productivity and disease incidence. Forewarning models with weather forecast are also described in the book with special emphasis to develop a strategy for Resilient Agriculture. ICT application in Agriculture has also found a place in the book, which is a compendium of the entire gamut of the potential impacts on Agriculture and allied sectors thus suggesting the ways to combat weather vagaries.

Contents: I. Weather and Agromet Services: 1. Impact of Climate Change: Vulnerability, Mitigation and Adaptation ? With Special Reference to Northeast India/U.C. Sharma and Vikas Sharma. 2. Resilient Agriculture in the Context of Climate Change/M. Datta, D. Daschaudhuri and S.V. Ngachan. 3. Probability Distribution Model of Weather Spells and Weather Cycles: A Case Study/Debashis Bhowmik and Banjul Bhattacharyya. 4. Weather Based Agromet Advisory Services: An Improved Tool to Mitigate Climate Change Impact on Crops/Shilpa, C.N., Pavithra, B.V., Padmashri, H.S., Rajegowda, M.B and N.A. Janardhana Gowda. 5. Climate Change Threatens Food Crops Across the World: An Overview/Md. Hedayetullah, C.K. Kundu, and Serajul Islam. II. Pest and diseases: 6. Climate Change and Integrated Pest Management/M Premjit Singh. 7. Effects of Weather Parameters on the Population Dynamics of Insect Pest of Rice: A Case Study/K A Pathak, Boopathi T, Santosh Kumar, Y Ramakrishna and Nitin Singh. 8. Climatological Influences in Occurrence of Pest with Special Emphasis to NE India/Subrata Biswas. 9. Integrated Disease/Pest Management in Plantation Crops/Amar Bahadur and Sukhen Chandra Das. 10. Climate Change and Effectiveness of Pesticides in Vegetable Crops/D. Sharmah, A.K. Singh and M. Datta. 11. Efficacy of Beauveria bassian (Balsamo) Vuillemin – A Potential Entomopathogen against Rice Hispa (Dicladispa armigera Olivier)/K.C. Puzari, Pranab Dutta, L.K. Hazarika , and P. Das. 12. Mulberry Diseases and Pest Control Measures/T.K. Chakma, B.C. Debbarma, D. Saha and S. Chakraborty. 13. Role of Fungal Pathogens as Biological Agents of Rice Pests in Changing Climatic Condition/Pranab Dutta, S. Kalita, K.C. Puzari and L.K. Hazarika. III. Climatic Influences Over Agriculture and Horticultural Crops: 14. Climate Influences on Potato Cultivation/Pulak Chaudhuri.15. Climatic Requirements for Horticultural Crops with an Approaches to Forecast of Yield & Disease-Insect Occurrence/Biswajit Das. 16. Climatic Assessment for Alternate Land Use Plan of Flood Affected Areas: An Observation/Britan Rahman, Pranab Dutta and Dipak Nath. 17. Biodiversity in Mushroom/Jai Prakash Sharma. 18. Absorption of Photosynthetic Active Radiation (PAR) and its Effect on Growth Processes and Yield of Wheat Under Different Dates in the Gangetic Plains of Eastern India/Rajib Nath, Mausumi Parya, D. Majumder, Sarika Jena and P.K Chakraborty. 19. Stress Impact Assessment of Brassica spp Under Different Dates of Sowing and Irrigation Level/Swaraj Kumar Dutta, Rajib Nath, G. Sounda, D. Majumder and P.K. Chakraborty. IV. Climatic Influences Over Animal Husbandry and Fisheries: 20. Amelioration of Summer Infertility in Livestock/B.S. Prakash. 21. Poultry Disease with Respect to Climatic Variability and their Suitable Remedial Measures/R.N. Chatterjee and M.R. Reddy. 22. Climate Change and Its Impact on Livestock Production Performance/Chander Datt, Ajay Kumar, Monica Puniya, S.S. Kundu and Tapan K. Das. 23. Reproductive Biology of the Catfish Ompok bimaculatus (Bloch, 1794) Related to the Affects of Climate Change/Samir Malla, Pritam Goswami and S. Banik. 24. Climate Change and Aquatic Resources: Issues and Challenges/Ratan K. Saha. 25. Impact of Climate Change on Fish Diseases and Immune Response and Some Control Methods for Common Diseases for Mitigation/Lopamudra Sahoo, C. Debnath, J. Parhi and M. Datta. 26. Prediction of Haemonchus contortus Infections in Goats in a Subtropical Hill Area ?A Preliminary Study/R. Laha, M. Das and A. Goswami. V. ICT Application in Agricltural: 27. Disease Prediction Models ? Development and Validation/Suseelendra Desai. 28. Comparative Study of Hit-ratio (Accuracy Percentage) of Rice Blast Forecasting using Various Forecasting Models Based on Different statistical techniques: A Case Study/R. Bhagawati, Kaushik Bhagawati, G. Bhagawati, U.D. Singh, S. Baruah and S.P. Singh. 29. Useful Softwares for Climate Change Research/Roop Singh Maitry, Hemavati R., M. Datta and D. Daschaudhuri. 30. Diseases Forecasting Models: Their Role in Agriculture and Climate Change/Hemavati R, Roop Singh Maitry, B.L. Meena, M. Datta and D. Daschaudhuri.The book covers the detail information on the probable impacts of climatic variability on various agricultural and horticultural crops with pest and disease incidences and their remedial measures.