Contents: Foreword/Mangla Raj. Preface. List of contributors. 1. Climate change/K.K. Singh. 2. Agrometeorological advisory service: past present and future/L.S. Rathore. 3. Impact of natural disasters on agriculture with reference to strategies adopted to cope with it/H.P. Das. 4. Agro advisory services--a national perspective/Y.S. Ramakrishna, G.G.S.N. Rao, A.V.M.S. Rao and V.U. M. Rao. 5. National facility of Agromet data bank a boon to sustainable agriculture/G.G.S.N. Rao, Y.S. Ramakrishna, A.V.R. Kesavarao, A.V.M.S. Rao and V.U.M. Rao. 6. Agroclimatic variability: a thought on sustainable agriculture/N.P. Singh, M. Datta and D. Daschaudhuri. 7. Effect of climatic variability on crop productivity in North East India/M. Datta, D. Daschaudhuri and N.P. Singh. 8. Agrometeorological scenario of North East India/K.K. Satapathy, U.S. Saikia and P. Choudhuri. 9. Agroclimatic characterization: a necessity for scientific crop production and crop planning in dryland agriculture--a case study of Varanasi Region/Tarkeswar Singh, M.K. Singh and S.R. Singh. 10. Rubber cultivation in North East India an agrometerological perspective/Shammi Raj and S.K. Dey. 11. Influence of weather parameters on plant disease/A.K. Singh and Pankaj Baiswar. 12. Weather and climatic information for integrated pest management/D.K. Das, A. Dhandapani and T.P. Trivedi. 13. Role of agrometerological advisory services in Mizoram/K.A. Pathak, Brajendra and A.K. Biswakarma. 14. Analysis of rainfall characteristics at Lembucherra (Tripura) in North East India/D. Daschaudhuri, M. Datta and N.P. Singh. 15. Scope of agrometeorological advisory services in Manipur/S.V. Ngachan and P.T. Sharma. 16. Late quaternary environmental changes and their impact upon coastal and paleo-coastal Bengal Basin in India: a climato-geomorphic study/Sudip Dey. 17. Climate and horticultural crops/M. Sankaran, Jai Prakash, N.P. Singh and M. Datta. 18. Influence of environment in cultivating edible mushroom/S. Biswas and N.P. Singh. 19. Climate and livestock production/Chander Datt and N.P. Singh. 20. Incidence of Stronglye infection in cattle and pig with relevance to weather parameters/S. Bandyopadhyay. 21. Climate and freshwater fisheries/B. Santhosh, M. Datta and N.P. Singh. 22. Impact of climate on fish diseases/Ashutosh D. Deo. Index.

"The book has a comprehensive account of the climate change with possible projections on food security in India. Global scenario of extreme climatic events and the corresponding probable climatic parameters in the years to come are discussed elaborately. The effect of climatic variability on the productivity of crops particularly cereals, pulses, oilseeds, vegetables, fruits and flowers etc and incidences of plant diseases are highlighted. Moreover, the environmental effect on edible mushroom and rubber cultivation is also brought under the discussion in the book. Besides crop productivity, the information on the impact of climatic variability on the productivity/survival of livestock and freshwater fisheries is also made available. To avert weather vagaries, agro-advisory services on national perspectives are rendered with due importance. Finally, a focus on district level agro-advisory followed by a proper crop planning is also bestowed."