Precipitation and its effect on crop production
- Precipitation refers to any type of condensed moisture that fall from atmosphere to the earth’s
- It reveals general pattern of rainfall of a particular place.
- It helps in understanding the amount, intensity, distribution and other rainfall characteristics.
- It gives fair idea of the amount of rainfall of a particular region.
- Precipitation helps to maintain efficient cropping system, decisions on time of sowing, scheduling of irrigation, time of harvesting, designing farm ponds, tanks, irrigation projects etc.