Challenges of Climate Change - Indian Horticulture
Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Impact of climate change on horticultural crops/H.P. Singh. 2. Climatic change and plantation crops: impact, adaptation and mitigation with special reference to coconut/S. Naresh Kumar, K.V. Kasturi Bai and G.V. Thomas. 3. An assessment of potential impacts of climate change on fruit crops/R.H. Laxman, K.S. Shivashankara and N.K. Srinivasa Rao. 4. Impact of climate change on Mango and tropical fruit crops/S.R. Bhriguvanshi. 5. Impact of climate change on oil palm in India/K. Suresh and M. Kochu Babu. 6. Impact analysis of temperature rise and elevated carbon dioxide on banana production in India/I. Ravi and M.M. Mustaffa. 7. Effect of climate change on yield and insect pests incidence on cashew/N. Yadukumar, T.N. Raviprasad and M.G. Bhat. 8. Climatic influence on growth and productivity of black pepper/K.S. Krishnamurthy, K. Kandiannan, B. Chempakam, Utpala Parthasarthy and V.A. Parthasarthy. 9. Impact of climate change on citrus in India/A.D. Huchche, P. Panigrahi and V.J. Shivankar. 10. Impact of climate change on productivity of fruit crops in arid regions/T.A. More and Rakesh Bhargava. 11. Climate change and seed spices/O.P. Aishwath, S.S. Meena, K. Kant. Y.K. Sharma and M.M. Anwer. 12. Impact of climate change on potato in India/J.P. Singh, S.S. Lal, P.M. Govindakrishnan, V.K. Dua and S.K. Pandey. 13. Impact of climate change on onion and garlic production/K.E. Lawande. 14. Impact of climate change on cassava and sweet potato/V. Ravi and C.S. Ravindran. 15. Impact of climate change on vegetable crops/N.K. Srinivasa Rao, R.H. Laxman and R.M. Bhatt. 16. Impact of global warming on Mushroom cultivation and integrated pest and disease management strategies/V.P. Sharma, R.P. Tewari and S.R. Sharma. 17. Climate change and its impact on orchids/R.P. Medhi, D. Barman and B. Rai. 18. Climate change and its impact on medicinal and aromatic plants/Manish Das. 19. Impact of climate change on fungal diseases of horticultural crops/P. Chowdappa. 20. Climate change and virus diseases of horticultural crops/M. Krishna Reddy. 21. Implications of climate change on horticultural crop pests-Indian scenario/V. Sridhar, N.K. Krishna Kumar and Abraham Verghese. 22. Impact assessment of climate change on potato disease and insect pests/B.P. Singh and Narayana M. Bhat. 23. Climate change and carbon sequestration in horticultural crops/Debasish Mahapatro. 24. Impact assessment and adaptation strategies to mitigate the effect of climate change on island ecosystem/S.K. Ambast and R.C. Srivastava. Annexes. Author index.
"Global warming and climate change is the gravest concern of mankind in 21 century. Horticulture, in India with approximately 30% contribution in agricultural GDP from only 8% of cultivated land is threatened with serious consequences in production, quality and processing and increased cost of plant protection. The knowledge about the impact of climate change on horticultural crops is limited. Addressing problems of climate change is more challenging in horticulture crops compared to annual food crops. The issues of climate change and solution to the problems arising out of it requires thorough analysis, advance planning and improved management. Horticulture, in future scenarios of climate change offers numerous opportunities as well. These need to be harnessed by careful policy planning, innovation, technology development and refinement. This book, \'Challenges of Climate Change - Indian Horticulture\' is a collection of scholarly articles on horticultural crops incorporating intense deliberations and discussions by eminent horticultural scientists in a \'Brain storming session\' held at Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, India. Each article reviews the current scientific knowledge, analyses the likely impacts of climate change on quality and production, suggests possible adaptation and mitigation measures along with future strategies of research and development. Additionally important websites for information, research institutes involved with climate change, important scientific journals on climate change, brief notes on important conferences on climate change and their significance and proceedings and recommendations of the brain storming session is included in annexure for further reading. The book will be highly and equally valuable to research workers, students, policy planners and farmers to manage climate change in near future."
