This second volume on the topic will be extremely useful for the
researchers and postgraduate students working on vegetable crops
with a special focus on climate change. Today, the entire world is
suffering from global warming and its consequent, climate change.
This has emerged as the most prominent global environmental issue
and there is an urgent need to mitigate its impact on agriculture.
Over the past 20 years South Asia has had a robust economic growth,
yet it is home to more than one fourth of the world's hunger and
40% of the world's malnourished children and women. Persistent
climatic variability, which results in frequent drought and flood,
is among the major reasons for this phenomenon. Vegetables are in
general more succulent (have 90% water) and more sensitive to
climatic vagaries and sudden changes in temperature, as well as
irregular precipitation at any phase of crop growing, can affect
the normal growth, flowering, pollination, fruit setting, fruit
development and fruit ripening which eventually decreases the
yield. The irregular precipitation also causes the soil salinity
and is a major challenge in many vegetable growing areas. To
mitigate the harmful impact of climatic change there is an urgent
need to develop adequate adaptation strategies for adverse effect
of climate change and preference should be given to the development
of heat, cold, drought, flood and salinity stress tolerant
genotypes along with climate proofing through conventional and
non-conventional breeding techniques, as well as exploiting the
beneficial effects of CO2 enhancement on crop growth and yield.
Available evidence shows that there is high probability of increase
in the frequency and intensity of climate related natural hazards
due to climate change and hence increase the potential threat due
to climate change related natural disasters in the world. At
present protected cultivation and grafted seedlings are also
popularizing among vegetable growers because of the huge scope as
well as, molecular breeding, emerging insect-pests & diseases
and postharvest quality of vegetables under this climate change
scenario. Moreover, underexploited vegetables, perennial vegetable
and tuber crops have a more tolerant ability to climate vagaries
compare to major vegetables which are also discussed in this book.
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