Abstract
THE world pattern of agriculture is largely determined by the world pattern of climate, and where wide fluctuations from average weather may occur without warning, the results may be catastrophic. Indian fear of flood and drought and of other weather extremes made it imperative that there should be some organised study of weather in relation to crops, and a recently published report* surveys activities of the Agricultural Meteorology Branch of the India Meteorological Department set up for this purpose in 1932.
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P., H. Weather and Farming in India. Nature 163, 696–697 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163696a0
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