ISSN : 0975-3710
EISSN : 0975-9107
J.S. KANG1*, S.S. SANDHU2, JAGDISH SINGH3, HARMEET SINGH4, HARRAJDEEP KANG5, KAMALJIT GREWAL6, GURBIR SINGH7
1Department of Agronomy, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana 141004 Punjab
2Department of Agronomy, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana 141004 Punjab
3School of Climate Change and Agricultural Meteorology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana 141004 Punjab
4Department of Agronomy, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana 141004 Punjab
5Department of Botany, KCW, Ludhiana, 141004 Punjab
6Department of Botany, GNGC, Ludhiana, 141004 Punjab
7GRA, Department of Forestry, Southern Illinois University, IL 62901, USA
* Corresponding Author : kangjs@pau.edu
Received : 21-09-2015 Accepted : 30-09-2015 Published : 07-11-2015
Volume : 7 Issue : 8 Pages : 601 - 605
Int J Agr Sci 7.8 (2015):601-605
Keywords : Climate change, Global warming, Crop production, Green house gases
Academic Editor : Dr Munish Kumar
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : None declared
Climate change is an important issue affecting the agriculture, forestry, industry etc. The assessment of impact of climate change on crop production is bit difficult, because of the complex process going on in the plants system, which responds differently to change in individual factor of climate. The crops phenology is expected to be advanced due to rise in temperature, and will shorten the period of the crop growth. On the other hand increase in the concentration of the carbon dioxide may increase the crop yield due to fertilization effect of CO2. With the rise in temperature, insect pest population and occurrence of plant disease may be another threat to the crop productivity.Improved soil/crop management practices withpotential of soil organic carbon sequestration including conservation tillage, judicious use offertilizers, manures and diverse crop rotations may be followed to mitigate the effects of climate change on crop productivity.