1Department of Agribusiness Economics and Policies, International Agribusiness Management Institute, Anand Agricultural University, Anand, Gujarat, India
2Indian Council of Agricultural Research, National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, New Delhi, India
3Department of Agricultural Economics, Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India
*Corresponding author: snehalmishra@aau.in
Online published on 24 November, 2017.
Climate change and global warming poses threat to the living beings. The developing countries like India, are facing the problem of producing sufficient food for the ever increasing population. Apart from cereals, pulses are the main constituent of the Indian food platter. The present study was undertaken to find out the impact of change in climatic variables, viz. temperature and rainfall on yield of Pigeon Pea by using district-level panel data for Gujarat from 1980–2011. An increase in temperature was found to have a negative impact on the yield of crop whereas rainfall had a favourable impact.
Climate change, yield, Pigeon pea, marginal effect, Gujarat
