OAR@ICRISATImpact of Climate Change in Soils of Semi-Arid Tropics (SAT)D KPalauthorDSarkarauthorTBhattacharyyaauthorS CDattaauthorPChandranauthorS KRayauthorThe review o f research results on Indian major soil types under semi-arid tropics (SAT) indicates that climate change from humid to arid occurred in the Peninsular regions o f India during the Holocene period. This change is being realized in the rise in mean annual temperature (MAT) and decrease in mean annual rainfall (MAR). The prevailing arid climatic adversities favoured the sequestration o f inorganic carbon as CaC03 with concomitant development of soil sodicity in major soil types o f India, representing regressive pedogenesis. As a result, crop productivity in these soils often has reduced to less than 50%. Thus the regressive pedogenetic processes under SAT environments pose a threat to agriculture being an unfavourable natural endowment that will ever demand for extra resources for raising crops (especially the winter crops) by the resource poor farmers in the naturally degraded soils.Soil ScienceClimate Change2013Studium Press India Pvt LtdBook Section

For work being deposited by its own author: In self-archiving this collection of files and associated bibliographic metadata, I grant OAR@ICRISAT the right to store them and to make them permanently available publicly for free on-line. I declare that this material is my own intellectual property and I understand that OAR@ICRISAT does not assume any responsibility if there is any breach of copyright in distributing these files or metadata. (All authors are urged to prominently assert their copyright on the title page of their work.)

For work being deposited by someone other than its author: I hereby declare that the collection of files and associated bibliographic metadata that I am archiving at OAR@ICRISAT) is in the public domain. If this is not the case, I accept full responsibility for any breach of copyright that distributing these files or metadata may entail.

Clicking on the deposit button indicates your agreement to these terms.