Agroclimatic/ Agrometeorological Techniques

by S. Jeevananda Reddy

Overview

The two natural resources that are vital for agriculture are soil and climate. Man has no control as yet over the later and needs to adapt to it. Earth's climate is dynamic and always changing through the natural cycle. What we are experiencing now is part of this system. The nature of climate is sometimes complicated because of wide range of ecological and topographical diversities and hence requires in-depth studies to develop such adaptive measures. This is one of the challenging areas for agrometeorologists. Crop production forecasts are important to minimize risk in the food system-crop condition during the growing season and finally yield/production. Features: The book is intended to provide guidance to students and assist scientists on the practical application of some of the agrometeorological and agroclimatological tools in the area of short- and long-term agricultural planning as well as on the crop early warning and the drought monitoring with reference to dry-land agriculture in developing countries. To achieve such a goal presented natural variability in precipitation; a major component of climate change along with this presented in Annexure some basic aspects of meteorology and climatology. The other important area dealt in the book is the quantification and classification of agroclimate that facilitate transfer of location specific agricultural technologies developed by scientists from field trials & innovation technologies developed by progressive farmers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789387445468
Publisher:	Arts & Science Academic Publishing
Publication date:	06/30/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	372
File size:	20 MB
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About the Author

Dr. Sazzala Jeevananda Reddy [Dr. S. J. Reddy] was born into an agricultural family on 4th November 1943 in Kurnool District of Andhra Pradesh, India. Graduating from A. C. College in Guntur, Dr. Reddy obtained his M.Sc. [Tech] in Geophysics and Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Statistics (P.G.D.A.S.) from the Andhra University in Visakhapatnam/India. Dr. Reddy completed advanced training in meteorology & Oceanography [A.T.M.& O.] from the India Meteorological Department's Training School in Pune/India and also completed advanced course in numerical weather prediction [N.W.P.]. Dr. Reddy got his Ph.D. in "Agricultural Meteorology" from the "Te Australian National University", Canberra/Australia. Dr. Reddy has a vast experience in the fled of agro climatology & agro meteorology while working in several national and international institutions and organizations such as India Meteorological Department (IMD) in Pune/India, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad/ India, Inter-American Institute for Cooperative Agriculture (IICA)/ EMBRAPA/CPATSA in Petrolina/Brazil, National Institute of Agricultural Research (INIA) and National Directorate of Agriculture (DINA), Ministry of Agriculture, as FAO Expert/Dy. Team Leader in Maputo/Mozambique, FAO short-term consultant in Argentina (Ministry of Agriculture) and in Ethiopia (National Meteorological Services Agency - NMSA) and WMO Senior Expert/Chief Technical Advisor/Team Leader in National Meteorological Services Agency (NMSA), Addis Ababa/Ethiopia. Dr. Reddy authored/Edited 11 books and presented chapters in few other books. Dr. Reddy published more than 500 scientific articles and few hundred news paper articles and several hundreds of opinions on online articles/reports. Dr. Reddy is Life Member of Indian Meteorological Society-AP Chapter (IMS); Fellow of Telangana Academy of Sciences [Founder Member]; Convenor, Forum for a Sustainable Environment. Dr. Reddy also served in several committees relating to pollution control board and environmental activist groups.