Planned Responses in Agricultural Management under a Changing Climate

Abstract

The purpose of this section is to study how agrometeorological information can be used in centralized planning for improving the adaptation of agriculture to variations in climate. This problem is particularly important in the USSR where, in spite of existing measures for yield stabilization, the fluctuations in annual crop production remain considerable. As a consequence there is, for example, an increasing tendency toward wastage of agricultural crops in favorable production years, incomplete utilization of the industrial capacities for processing agricultural products in bad years, and irregular employment of the agricultural population.