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Achievements
- Data base had been prepared
with meteorological data for four stations, Daily/weekly/monthly rainfall data for revenue
blocks in 13 districts are
analysed for characterization.
- Districts have been categorized into zones
of (a) high rainfall low variability (b) high rainfall
with high variability and (c) low rainfall with high
variability.
- Years with drought only, flood
only, drought + flood, Cyclone + flood, clamity free were
identified for the period 1965-1997.
- Duration of rainfall deficit at
different growth stages in pady crop (expressed as number of
weeks) was worked out to assess the growth stages vulnerable to
drought.
- District-wise variability in
rice yield was correlated with rainfall and alternate cropping
strategies have been suggested.
- Crop weather relationships in
groundnut were studied through field experiments at Bhubaneswar in
terms of degree days needed for initiation of the different
developmental stages.
- Studies on Bacterial leaf
blight and stemborer in kharif rice were initiated in
1997 and regressed with minimum temperature, sunshine hours and
rainfall/humidity. The results need further
substantiation.
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