Achievements
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Weekly, monthly, seasonal and annual
rainfall, dry and wet spells, their initial and conditional
probabilities of occurence, climatic water balance, length of
growing season and its characteristics were derived based on data for
30 years for the scarcity zone, and sub-montance zone in Maharashtra.
- Drought management
strategy, sustainable yield and value index(in monetary terms)
were worked out for pearl milet crop.
- In studies on crop-weather
relationships for pearl millet, grain yield was regressed with
rainfall, maximum temperature, evaporation, afternoon humidity,
radiation use efficiency at different phenophases. This may lead
to development of yield estimation based on weather conditions at
different growth stages of the crop within the season.
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Crop-weather calender for pearl millet with suggested
agricultural operations in relation to weather conditions in the growing
seson upto harvest was formulated.
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Yield-moisture adequacy indices relationships were
derived from field experiments on winter sorghum crop.
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