eprintid: 6207
rev_number: 13
eprint_status: archive
userid: 128
dir: disk0/00/00/62/07
datestamp: 2012-11-06 11:10:50
lastmod: 2013-02-25 04:04:50
status_changed: 2012-11-06 11:10:50
type: book_section
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Bhattacharyya, T
creators_name: Pal, D K
creators_name: Wani, S P
creators_name: Sahrawat, K L
icrisatcreators_name: Pal, D K
icrisatcreators_name: Wani, S P
icrisatcreators_name: Sahrawat, K L
affiliation: National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning(Nagpur)
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
country: India
title: Rain-fed Agriculture, Area and Extent
ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.8
full_text_status: public
keywords: Dry Lands, Agriculture, Rehabilition,Climate change
abstract: Rainfed areas, although vary from region to region, are important in terms of agriculture since most of the poor communities live in these areas.  Rainfed agriculture (RFA) is fragile due to climatic vagaries.  More than 90 per cent area comes uner RFA in the sub-Saharan Africa; the corresponding figures are 90 per cent, 60 per cent and 75 per cent for Latin America, South-Asia, East-Asia and Near-East North Africa, respectively...
date: 2013
date_type: published
publisher: Stadium Press (India) Pvt. Ltd.
place_of_pub: New Delhi
pagerange: 1-18
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 9789380012407
book_title: Climate Change and Agriculture
editors_name: Bhattacharyya, T
editors_name: Pal, D K
editors_name: Sarkar, D
editors_name: Wani, S P
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related_url_type: pub
citation:   Bhattacharyya, T and Pal, D K and Wani, S P and Sahrawat, K L  (2013) Rain-fed Agriculture, Area and Extent.   In:  Climate Change and Agriculture.   Stadium Press (India) Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, pp. 1-18.  ISBN 9789380012407     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/6207/1/Ch1_2012.pdf