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Sustainable agricultural production is vital for food security and agricultural productivity. It is greatly influenced by weather and climate conditions. This book focuses on understanding weather and climate systems and crop yield productions, including integrated weather-crop prediction systems for climate risk management in agriculture. It examines the impact of climate change and its variability on different crops, and possible ways to minimize the loss for farmers. This book also describes different weather and climate hazards, including the fundamentals of weather/climate prediction systems and numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. It presents the need for seamless weather/climate predictions and their impact on agriculture. The status and availability of different monthly and seasonal scale forecasts worldwide is explored and how the forecasting models or products can be evaluated using statistical methods. The book concisely elucidates systematic model bias removal techniques and a reliable approach based on multi-statistics in producing a single forecast from the multi-model grand ensemble. Since crop models need daily weather sequence, several standard disaggregation methods for generating daily weather sequences from monthly/seasonal products are presented. This book describes several aspects that are needed for agricultural practices and crop modelling. It encapsulates different components of crop models and their application, preparation methods of Crop Weather Calendar, application of disaggregated weather sequence in crop models, and generation of Climate Risk Matrices (CRM). A detailed methodology is presented for hands-on practice, including downloading and processing data, model evaluation and bias corrections, generating a single forecast, disaggregation, and preparing CRM based on crop model products. This book contains a total 11 chapters and appeals to students, researchers, scientists, and operational agencies.

This book presents a detailed study of four Booker Prize winning novels written by Indian novelists. Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss and Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger have won the prestigious Man Booker Prize in the last three decades. There is a unique kind of thematic delineation in these novels. Constant human struggle in the vast panorama of human existence, changing social, political and anthropological scenario, a growing sense of globalization, cross-culturalism, modern diseases like bewilderment, anxiety, aimlessness, etc., from which human beings suffer a lot and. a sense of compassion are visible in these novels everywhere. All these things provide epic dimension and broad field of study to the scholars. The present study, based more on texts and less on critical remarks, analyzes above-mentioned features of these novels in detail.

This book provides ample knowledge on orchard and soil management in general and cultivation technology of commercial fruits of North Indian plains in particular for the teachers, students and orchardists. It will be very beneficial for the research planners and research workers to formulate policies and projects. The recommendations made in this book for the cultivation of different fruits shall help in the production of high quality fruits with higher yields, for long time consistently and economically. Orcharding shall become a highly remunerative venture by following the practices presented in book in simple language. The recommend actions on nutrition, pest and disease management shall protect the soil health and environment from further deterioration. The information given for the preparation of various solutions e.g. NAA, IBA, Bordeaux paste, paint and Bordeaux mixture etc. shall be very useful for the field workers.