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Agricultural production is highly dependent on weather, climate and water availability, and is adversely affected by weather- and climate-related disasters. Failure of rains and occurrence of natural disasters such as floods and droughts could lead to crop failures, food insecurity, famine, loss of property and life, mass migration, and negative national economic growth. Hence agricultural communities around the world have always looked for ways and means to cope with the climate variability including the use of various traditional indicators to predict the seasonal climate behavior.
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Sivakumar, M.V.K., Hansen, J. (2007). Climate Prediction and Agriculture: Summary and the Way Forward. In: Sivakumar, M.V.K., Hansen, J. (eds) Climate Prediction and Agriculture. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44650-7_1
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