Climate variability and crop planning in Narmada district of Gujarat

This research study was planned to find long term changes in the temperature and rainfall in the Narmada district of Gujarat, India. Long term data were collected and observed the monthly maximum temperature trend in the months of February, March, April, August and December with Sens’s slope of 0.061, 0.041, 0.030, 0.046 and 0.036, respectively. Similarly, monthly minimum temperature had trend as Sen’s slope in the months: February, March, April, July, August, September and October as 0.053, 0.039, 0.044, 0.015, 0.021, 0.024 and 0.034 respectively. Similarly, monthly mean temperature has trend in the February, March, April, May, August and December, Sen’s slope as 0.059 0.039, 0.041, 0.030, 0.035 and 0.026 respectively. The annual precipitation in the Narmada district was estimated at 3463.9 MCM and nine major crop water requirements were 776.3 MCM and gross irrigation requirement was 277.83 MCM which was useful for the crop planning in the Narmada district.