Crop-weather model for turmeric yield forecasting for Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu, India

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 112, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 133-137

  Kandiannan, K ^a   Chandaragiri, K K ^b   Sankaran, N ^b   Balasubramanian, T N ^b   Kailasam, C ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SPICES RESEARCH   (India)

^b TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Crop weather model; Curcuma domestica; Turmeric; Yield prediction

Indexed keywords

AGROMETEOROLOGY; CROP YIELD; MODELING; MONSOON; SPICE;

INDIA;

CURCUMA; CURCUMA LONGA;

EID: 0037206631     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(02)00125-9     Document Type: Article

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