AGROCLIMATIC ZONES OF INDIA

Authors
VENKATESWARLU J RAMAKRISHNA YS RAO AS
Citation
J. Venkateswarlu et al., AGROCLIMATIC ZONES OF INDIA, Annals of Arid Zone, 35(1), 1996, pp. 1-7
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Agriculture
Journal title
Annals of Arid Zone → ACNP
ISSN journal
05701791
Volume
35
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
1 - 7
Database
ISI
SICI code
0570-1791(1996)35:1<1:AZOI>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
Different methods followed to classify Indian sub-continent into homog eneous agro-climatic zones have been summarized and an attempt made to regroup the 126 agro-climatic zones identified by ICAR under the NARP programme. The present exercise was made to combine contiguous zones, having similar soil, climatic, physiographic and cropping patterns, t hereby reducing the total number of zones to a manageable number of 60 , in addition to the 2 zones representing Andaman-Nicobar islands and Lakshadweep islands.