Detection and awareness of increasing climate variability and the elevating climate risk in farming systems with non-forest trees

Abstract

Increasing extreme events have many consequences. For example excessive rain raises the water table which restricts the development of plantation/orchard trees. For shallow rooted rubber crops, if the land is inundated following heavy rainfall, severe damage and even death can occur. However, they may recover well from short periods of shallow inundation. Increase in rainfall also affects the yield of rubber due to loss of tapping days and heavy rainfall may wash the latex out of the cups, resulting in what is known as washout (Zhao et al. 2005). © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.