IIT Kharagpur syllabus for crop production technology

Climate Change and Agricultural Production System

None Climate and Agriculture: Climatic requirement for crop growth and

development, Issues and approaches to climate change; Climate change,

agriculture and sustainability. Impact Assessment: Assessing climate change

impacts on agriculture; Use of crop models for climate change impact

assessment; Hydrological cycle; Soil carbon sequestration .Food Security:

Climate change and tropical agriculture; Climate change and organic

agriculture; Crop production in dryland regions; Risk assessment and food

security.

Adaptation Strategies: Climate change, global agriculture and regional

vulnerability; Evaluation of adaptation strategies; Research and

development for countering climate change.