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100			_aPrasada Rao, G. S. L. H. V.;
245			_a Climate change and plantations in the humid tropics / _cG S L H V Prasada Rao; C S Gopakumar
260			_aNew Delhi : _bNew India Publishing Agency, _c2016.
300			_axxv, 461 pages : _billustrations (black and white, and colour) ; _c 25 cm
505			_aPreface _tChapter 1. Introduction _tChapter 2. Climate Change in India _tChapter 3. Climate Variability and Food Security _tChapter 4. Climate Change Over Kerala _t Chapter 5. Climate Change and Rice _tChapter 6. Weather, Climate and Plantation Crops _tChapter 7. Climate Change and Coconut _tChapter 8. Climate Change and Cashew Productivity _tChapter 9. Climate Variability and Cocoa Production in Kerala _t Chapter 10 Climate Change and Cardamom _tChapter 11. Climate Variability and Rubber _tChapter 12. Climate Change and Black Pepper and Coffee _tChapter 13. Climate Variability and Tea Production _tChapter 14. Climate Change and Agriculture Scenario: Kerala Perspective _tChapter 15. Climate Change and Quality Aspects of Plantation Crops _tChapter 16. Climate Risk Management in Plantation Crops
520			_aWeather and climate play an important role in plantation crops’ production. While climate determines the adaptability of a particular crop in a region, weather determines the yield attributes of the crop. The global warming and climate change impacts on plantation crops are evident in the form of extreme weather events like floods, droughts, cold and heat waves and strong cyclonic winds, the frequency of which is likely to be more and more in the ensuing decades as noticed year after year around the globe in 1998, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2015. It is now a topic of concern and the plantations’ economy is in a threat in the ensuing decades due to climate variability. Decline in monsoon rainfall with number of rainy days, increasing ambient air temperatures (both day maximum and night minimum), decline in groundwater table, decline in wetland area and surface water resources, increasing number of forest fires and decline in forest area, increasing events of landslides during both the monsoon seasons, indiscriminate sand mining from river beds and unscientific land filling are the important climate change related issues in the Humid Tropics.
700			_aGopakumar, C. S.,
942			_2ddc _cBOOKS