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Agriculture and Crop Protection; Its Global Importance and Relationship with Climate Change

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Crop Protection Under Changing Climate

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Agricultural practice, which includes well-established systems of cropping, pasture and forestry, represents a continual and essential dependence on healthy arable land across the globe and requires safeguarding with sustainable fertilization and pest control measures. This natural resource system must be continually protected from deliberate and inadvertent damage, in order to provide a suitable source of current and future amenities for all inhabitants of the planet. In this respect, it is morally and ethically necessary that we strive to manage the productivity and well-being of agricultural land in a way that will fulfil the necessities of the present generations and do not compromise needs of the future generations (Bruntland et al. 2012).

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    The increase in stratospheric ozone (O3) is another concerning key factor in future atmospheric changes as it can cause visual plant injuries (Benton et al. 2000). The thinning in protective ozone layer also can lead to increased levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiations causing implications for crop cultivars and plants (Krupa et al. 1998).

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    For example, weeds such as itchgrass (Rottboellia cochinchinensis), which is currently restricted to the Mediterranean region, with its tropic and sub tropic conditions, are expected to expand their range to temperate regions with the expected future climatic conditions (Fuhrer 2003).

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Florentine, S., Chauhan, B.S., Jabran, K. (2020). Agriculture and Crop Protection; Its Global Importance and Relationship with Climate Change. In: Jabran, K., Florentine, S., Chauhan, B. (eds) Crop Protection Under Changing Climate. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46111-9_1

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