Contrasting area and yield responses to extreme climate contributes to climate-resilient rice production in Asia.

ABSTRACT: Climate impacts on crop production components other than yield, i.e., area and cropping intensity, remain under-studied. Here, we clarify climate-crop area relationships by analyzing subnational census area and yield data for six multi-rice cropping countries in South and Southeast Asia. Extreme climate has a greater influence on the departure of area and yield from long-term trends than the average seasonal climate; precipitation and temperature in the sowing period of the wet/rainfed season have a greater influence on variability of the total annual area than in the growing period. In 57% of the country-scenario cases showing significant changes in area and/or yield, the directions of the area and yield responses to climate are not synchronized, deriving non-significant production change

SUBMITTER: Hosokawa N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10110525 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature