Crop Production Under Changing Climate and Potential Adaptation Strategies
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Adaptation, climate change, climate projection, crop productionAbstract
Agricultural production faces risks due to various reasons; based on different reports, climatic risks that caused due to natural and human activities are the most important one as they are unavoidable and unexpected. Increased temperature, changed precipitation conditions and increased CO2 content in the atmosphere are the major climatic factors affecting crop production. Rise in atmospheric temperature will lead to loss of soil moisture and will increase the crop demand for water. The amount and availability of water stored in the soil will be affected by changes in both the precipitation and seasonal and annual evapotranspiration regimes. Changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration can cause uncertainty in crop yields. Solar radiation also has considerable effect on photosynthesis and crop yield. The effect of interrelationship between the climatic factors like temperature, rainfall, solar radiation, CO2 concentration, etc. crop yield need to be understood to take necessary adaptation measures to maintain crop production. This paper presents an overview of the impacts of climatic factors on crop production and the potential adaptation strategies that can improve crop production in changing climate.
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