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Jodha, N.S. Technology Options and Economic Policy for Dryland Agriculture. Concept<br />

Publishing Co. New Delhi.<br />

Kanitkar, N.U. 1944. Dry Farming in India, ICAR, New Delhi.<br />

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Singh, S.D. 1998. Arid Land Irrigation and Ecological Management. Scientific. Pub.,<br />

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Singh, S.D. Water Harvesting in Deseit. Manak Publications, New Delhi.<br />

3. Crop ecology and geography (2+0)<br />

Historical evolution, basic concepts and principles in crop ecology; response of crop<br />

plants to environment; factors (physical and social) determining crop distribution;<br />

classification of climate, bioclimatic zones; physiological limits of crop yield and<br />

variability in relation to the ecological optimum; photo and thermoperiodism; crop<br />

adaptation- geographic distribution of crop plants; adverse climatic effects and crop<br />

productivity; manipulation of development physiology of crops; crop phenology in<br />

relation to ecogeographical conditions; agro-climatic zones and agro-ecological regions<br />

of India; effects of global climate change on crop production.<br />

Suggested Readings<br />

Ambasht, R.S. 1986. A Text Book of Plant Ecology, 9th Edn.Students' Friends &<br />

Co., Varanasi, India, p. 351.<br />

Kumar, H.D. 1992. Modern Concept of Ecology, 7th Edn., Vikas Publishing House<br />

Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi., New Delhi, p.377.<br />

Lenka, D. 1998. Climate, Weather and Crops in India. Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi,<br />

pp.481.<br />

Misra, K.C. 1989. Manual of Plant Ecology, Third Edn., Oxford &IBH Publishing<br />

Co. NewDelhi.p.431.<br />

Odum, E.P. 1975. Ecology, 2nd Edn. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New<br />

Delhi, pp.249.

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