Surface irrigation dominates the Indian irrigation system. The total surface waters in the country have been estimated to be around 180 million hectare metres, out of which about 60 million hectare metres have been assessed to be usable. The groundwater resources for irrigation have been...

This paper provides an overview of climate change and agriculture, while paying some specific attention to the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture. This broad-brush account covers both the agronomic and economic aspects of the impact of climate change, as well as a critique of the...

Agriculture is vulnerable to the current state of climate variability as well as to projected changes in climate because of anthropogenic global warming. Models of crop production, considered together with global climate models, indicate that global warming will increase the exposure of major...