Vulnerability of wheat production to climate change in India

Climate Research

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 173-187

  Naresh Kumar, S ^a   Aggarwal, P K ^a,b   Swaroopa Rani, D N ^a   Saxena, R ^a   Chauhan, N ^a   Jain, S ^a  

^a INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Agriculture; Climate change; Impacts; Indo gangetic plains; Irrigated system; Wheat

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ADAPTATION; IMPACTS; INDO-GANGETIC PLAINS; IRRIGATED SYSTEM; WHEAT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOWING; SPATIAL VARIATION; VULNERABILITY; WHEAT;

INDIA;

EID: 84900453995     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr01212     Document Type: Article

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