Impacts of climate change on agriculture

Outlook on Agriculture

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 109-118

  Kalra, Naveen ^a,b   Chander, Subhash ^a,c   Pathak, H ^a,c   Aggarwal, P K ^d   Gupta, N C ^e   Sehgal, Mukesh ^f   Chakraborty, Debashis ^b  

^a INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b Division of Agricultural Physics   (India)

^c Unit of Simulation and Informatics

^d Environmental Sciences Division

^e GURU GOBIND SINGH INDRAPRASTHA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^f ICAR National Research Centre for Integrated Pest Management   (India)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climatic variability; Crop model; Crop yield; Pests; Soil health

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547260089     PISSN: 00307270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000007781159903     Document Type: Article

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