Weather based decision for growing kharif sorghum in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh

Abstract

Weather plays an important role in controlling the agricultural crop production especially under rainfed conditions. The agricultural production in India is predominantly influenced by southwest monsoon rainfall. And any variability of rainfall both in space and time can effect in the production considerably. Therefore, it has been felt necessary to plan the agricultural operations matching to the occurrence of various meteorological parameters at different crop growth stages. The All India Coordinated Research Project on Agrometeorology has been entrusted with the responsibility of developing weather based agricultural operations for the crops grown under different weather situations. In the recently held, X biennial workshop of ACIRP on Agrometeorology held at BCKVV, Mohanpur December 2008, it was decided to bring out crop wise manuals for important crops grown under different climatic conditions across the country. As a follow up of the recommendations, an attempt has been made to bring out this publication which can provide “Weather based decisions for growing kharif sorghum in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh”. It is hoped that the contents in the form of advisories of this technical bulletin is useful in improving agro advisory services of Telangana region in stabilizing the productivity of sorghum crop and also this would help in preparing similar publications for other crops by the various centres of AICRP on Agrometeorology. We express our sincere gratitude to Dr. A.K. Singh, DDG (NRM), ICAR New Delhi, for his constant guidance and encouragement and Dr. A.K. Gogoi, ADG (Agro), for his valuable suggestions and help. The help rendered by the staff members of AICRP on Agrometeorology is duly