Climate change impacts on agriculture are being witnessed all over the world. Understanding the adverse effects of climatic change on crop growth and development and developing strategies to counter these effects are of paramount importance for a sustainable climate-resilient agriculture. This multi-authored edited book brings out sound climate-resilient agriculture challenges, prospects and strategies that have a strong basic research foundation. We have attempted to bridge information from various diverse agricultural disciplines, such as biotechnology, plant breeding, sericulture, entomology, horticulture, soil science, agronomy, plant protection, and Agriculture extension, which can be used to evolve a need-based technology to combat the climatic change in agriculture. The book will be of interest to teachers, researchers, graduate and post-graduate students in Agriculture, climate science, environmental science as well as policy makers and environmental organizations.
Dr. Ratna Kalita is presently working as an Assistant professor at, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam, India. She did her Ph.D. from Assam Agricultural University. Her areas of specialization are Genome editing, Functional Genomics, Climate resilient agriculture, and Bioinformatics. Dr. Kalita has seven years of teaching and more than 12 years of research experience. She has published her research works in peer-reviewed national and international journals. She has received Travel Grant for attending International training under the AdaptNET project of ERASMUS+ funded by the European Commission at UMIL, Italy; UNIVPM, Ancona Italy; and Costa Navarino, Greece in 2020. She has been awarded best oral presenter at the National seminars and workshops.
Th. Aruna Singha is currently serving as Assistant Professor, Department of Sericulture, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat since 2014. She did her Post graduation in Sericulture from Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam. Presently her pursuing Ph.D degree in Entomology from Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat on the nutritional profiling of Silkworms. She has more than eight years of teaching experience and also trainings and demonstration experiences with sericulture farmers. She has more than 20 published research papers and popular article in National and international Journals. The author has also been nominated as reviewer and editor in many journals and e-magazine.