Impact of Climate Change on Pigeon Pea

Abstract

Climate change and global warming poses threat to the living beings. The developing countries like India, are facing the problem of producing sufficient food for the ever increasing population. Apart from cereals, pulses are the main constituent of the Indian food platter. The present study was undertaken to find out the impact of change in climatic variables, viz. temperature and rainfall on yield of Pigeon Pea by using district-level panel data for Gujarat from 1980–2011. An increase in temperature was found to have a negative impact on the yield of crop whereas rainfall had a favourable impact.