Weather switch is a various, multifactorial phenomenon, which means that the agronomic techniques wanted are case-specific and may have local changes. This publication presents an built-in view of the demanding situations and possibilities that may face agriculture sooner or later due to weather swap. It discusses how the stresses as a result of weather swap might be triumph over via assessing, measuring and predicting environmental alterations and stresses, opting for possibilities and adapting to alter and responding to multifactorial switch. demanding situations and strength techniques that may be taken to beat those are illustrated utilizing a few case reviews.
Climate switch will pose many demanding situations to agriculture sooner or later, yet by way of taking an integrative method of predicting and adapting to alter, this booklet will encourage researchers to show these demanding situations into possibilities.
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