Exploring the relationship between climate change and rice yield in Bangladesh: An analysis of time series data

Agricultural Systems

Volumn 112, Issue , 2012, Pages 11-16

  Sarker, Md Abdur Rashid ^a,b   Alam, Khorshed ^a   Gow, Jeff ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RAJSHAHI   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Climate change; Rice yield; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP YIELD; CULTIVAR; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; RICE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; YIELD RESPONSE;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 84863227513     PISSN: 0308521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2012.06.004     Document Type: Article

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