Authors : P A Lambat and A P Lambat
Page Nos : 269-273
Description :
In Nagpur district all cultivable land comes under one of the three main categories, namely, jirayat (dry crop land), bagayat (watered or garden land) and bhat lands (rice lands). Dry crop lands because of their dependence on the monsoon are further divided into kharif (early monsoon) and rabi (late monsoon) lands. Authors highlighted the considerable opportunity of using EcoCrop to assess global food security issues, broad climatic constraints and regional crop-suitability shifts in the context of climate change and the possibility of coupling it with other large-area approaches. Though the Ecocrop model showed cotton and soybean as best suited crops for the region, it is imperative that further studies involving investigations of crop productivity vis-à-vis crop diseases should be carried out.
