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Four Seasons of Learning and Engaging Smallholder Farmers - icrisat

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Figure 6-8: Rainfall distribution, pan evaporation, maximum <strong>and</strong> minimum temperatures during crop growing<br />

period at Palmira in 2008, 2009 <strong>and</strong> 2010.<br />

During the crop-growing season, maximum <strong>and</strong> minimum air temperatures were 33°C <strong>and</strong> 16.6°C in 2008,<br />

35.5°C <strong>and</strong> 16.1°C in 2009 <strong>and</strong> 33.0°C <strong>and</strong> 17.5°C in 2010, respectively. The incident solar radiation ranged from<br />

9.1 to 23.6 MJ m-2 d-1 in 2008, 11.7 to 25.7 MJ m-2 d-1 in 2009 <strong>and</strong> 6.8 to 22.4 MJ m-2 d-1 in 2010. The total<br />

rainfall during the active crop growth was 161 mm in 2008, 59 mm in 2009 <strong>and</strong> 224 mm in 2010. The potential<br />

pan evaporation was <strong>of</strong> 393 mm in 2008, 462 mm in 2009 <strong>and</strong> 340 mm in 2010.<br />

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<strong>Engaging</strong> <strong>Smallholder</strong> <strong>Farmers</strong> | Tropical Legumes II Project

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