Meet the editor

Dr. Ram Swaroop Meena is an assistant professor in the Department of Agronomy, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. He was awarded the Raman Research Fellowship by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India (GOI). Dr. Meena completed his postdoctoral research on soil carbon sequestration under Padma Shari Prof. Rattan Lal, World

Food Prize 2020 Laureate, Director, Carbon Management and Sequestration Center (CMASC), Columbus, Ohio, USA. He has supervised twenty-five postgraduate and six doctoral students and has eleven years of research and teaching experience. He is currently working on the three externally funded projects (DST, MHRD, ICAR) with one patent. Dr. Meena has published more than 110 research and review papers, 65 book chapters, and 20 books. He has worked as an expert for the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), MHRD, and GOI. Dr. Meena has also contributed to several agricultural extension activities, trainings, meetings, workshops, and more.

Contents

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 9**

**Chapter 3 29**

**Chapter 4 43**

**Chapter 5 57**

**Chapter 6 71**

**Chapter 7 93**

Climatic Variation and Its Impacts on Yield and Water Requirement

*Jaideep Kumar Bisht, Vijay Singh Meena, Mahipal Choudhary, Shyam Nath,* 

*by Ram Prakash Yadav, Suresh Chandra Panday, Jitendra Kumar,* 

Changes in the Agro-Climatic Conditions in Bulgaria at the End

Atmospheric Pollution Interventions in the Environment: Effects on Biotic and Abiotic Factors, Their Monitoring and Control

A Revisit of Rainfall Simulator as a Potential Tool for Hydrological

*by Nukshab Zeeshan, Nabila, Ghulam Murtaza, Zia Ur Rahman Farooqi,* 

Prediction of Crop Yields under a Changing Climate *by Godfrey Shem Juma and Festus Kelonye Beru*

of Crops in Indian Central Himalaya

*by Boubakeur Guesmi*

Research

*by Valentin Stoyanov Kazandjiev and Veska Anastassova Georgieva*

*Manoj Parihar and Rajendra Prasad Meena*

Climate as the Major Factor Controlling Phenology

of the 20th and the Beginning of the 21st Century

*Khurram Naveed and Muhammad Usman Farid*

Methane Cycling in Paddy Field: A Global Warming Issue *by Mohammed Mahabubur Rahman and Akinori Yamamoto*

*by Felix Gemlack Ngasoh, Constantine Crown Mbajiorgu, Matthew Boniface Kamai and Gideon Onyekachi Okoro*
