Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 2

Climate-resilient agrotechnology: Strategies to enhance crop sustainability under water-deficit agroecosystem

  • Author:
  • Hanuman Prasad Parewa1, Sunita Kumari Meena2, Moola Ram3, Vijay Singh Meena45
  • Total Page Count: 11
  • Page Number: 105 to 115

1College of Agriculture, Agriculture University, Jodhpur, Sumerpur, Pali, Rajasthan, India

2Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur, Bihar, India

3Agricultural Research Station, Agriculture University, Jodhpur, Mandor, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

4Borlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA), CIMMYT, Pusa, Samastipur, Bihar, India

5ICAR-Vivekananda Parvatiya Krishi Anusandhan Sansthan, Almora, India

*Corresponding author email id: vijayssac.bhu@gmail.com; vijay.meena@icar.gov.in

Online published on 24 November, 2020.

Abstract

Nowadays, the changing patterns in weather situations, rising carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations, sea level and also increasing temperature is an indicative of the fact that climate change (CC) being encountered by agroecosystem. The increasing levels of CO2 affect plant growth, warmer and drier condition, variation in wind speed, attack of insect, pest and diseases and other subtle changes coming from different components of crop agroecosystems and others directly impacts on agricultural productivity. The crop production is vulnerable to CC may cause decline in crop production. Overall, enhancing crop sustainability to fulfil the requirements of increasing population under CC is a challenging task. In this article, we focused on constraints and adaptation strategies to mitigate the CC under water deficit agroecosystem.

Keywords

Agroecosystem, Climate change, Crop productivity, Global population