Developing scales and tools for weather and climate related risk quantifications: Multiple cropping

Abstract

The discussion of scales and tools development for risk quantifications must be significant for delineating areas for (coping with) weather risks rather than multiple cropping, as the former is suitable to the latter too. FORECASTERS are for example weather-pest forecast models which are tools for weather related risks in farming. Insect pest growth is thermally influenced whereas pathogens depend on minimum temperature, relative humidity, wetness duration, sunshine duration etc. (Venkatesh 2008). So again we have generic examples and indicate particularities where applicable to multiple cropping such as in pest epidemics (Patel and Shekh 2006). © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.