relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/11266/
title: Weather based crop advisories for climate resilience : Crop management advisories through mobile phones yield positive results for groundnut farmers in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh
creator: Rao, A V R K
creator: Dixit, S
subject: Andhra Pradesh
subject: Crop Yield
subject: Groundnut
subject: Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
subject: Indian Agriculture
subject: Information and Communications Technology
description: Global warming is likely to reach 1.5°C  between 2030 and 2052, if it continues  to increase at the current rate, as per the  report released in October 2018 by the  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  Climate related risks for natural and human  systems are higher for global warming of  1.5°C than at present. Global atmospheric  concentration of CO2 has increased from  preindustrial level of 280 parts per million  (ppm) to 409 ppm in December 2018. Studies  show that climate change in India is real and  it is one of the major challenges faced by  Indian agriculture, more so in the semi-arid  tropics (SAT) of the country. ICRISAT under  the National Initiative on Climate Resilient  Agriculture (NICRA) project, quantified the  changes in areas under different climates in  India and their study indicated increase in  the semi-arid areas in the country...
date: 2019-07
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/11266/1/Weather_based_crop_advisories_for_climate_resilience_Dr_AVR_Kesava_Rao_and_Dr_Sreenath_Dixit_ICRISAT.pdf
identifier:   Rao, A V R K and Dixit, S  (2019) Weather based crop advisories for climate resilience : Crop management advisories through mobile phones yield positive results for groundnut farmers in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh.  Ecologic.  pp. 1-4.