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Rain-fed Agriculture, Area and Extent

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Title Rain-fed Agriculture, Area and Extent
 
Creator Bhattacharyya, T
Pal, D K
Wani, S P
Sahrawat, K L
 
Subject Climate change
 
Description Rainfed areas, although vary from region to region, are important in terms of agriculture since most of the poor communities live in these areas. Rainfed agriculture (RFA) is fragile due to climatic vagaries. More than 90 per cent area comes uner RFA in the sub-Saharan Africa; the corresponding figures are 90 per cent, 60 per cent and 75 per cent for Latin America, South-Asia, East-Asia and Near-East North Africa, respectively...
 
Publisher Stadium Press (India) Pvt. Ltd.
 
Contributor Bhattacharyya, T
Pal, D K
Sarkar, D
Wani, S P
 
Date 2013
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/6207/1/Ch1_2012.pdf
Bhattacharyya, T and Pal, D K and Wani, S P and Sahrawat, K L (2013) Rain-fed Agriculture, Area and Extent. In: Climate Change and Agriculture. Stadium Press (India) Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9789380012407