Khichar Ml

• PhD Agricultural Meteorology
• Head of Faculty at Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University

ABSTRACT. This research aimed to examine the trends of extreme rainfall events and determine the most suitable probability distribution for rainfall in Haryana state, which is divided into two agroclimatic zones: eastern and western. Five stations (Ambala, Karnal, Hisar, Sirsa and Bawal) were selected from across the state for this analysis. The st...

The daily climate data collected for Hisar district between November 1, 1977 and April 30, 2022, has been analyzed and presented in this study. The data set was divided into two parts: training and testing data. This study presents the results of ARIMA, state space, and seasonal Holt-Winters models fitted for maximum temperature, minimum temperatur...

The daily climate data collected for Hisar district between November 1, 1977 and April 30, 2022, has been analyzed and presented in this study. The data set was divided into two parts: training and testing data. This study presents the results of ARIMA, state space, and seasonal Holt-Winters models fitted for maximum temperature, minimum temperatur...

An experiment was conducted under rainfed condition at Hisar, Haryana to study the influence of various agro-meteorological parameters (Agromet) i.e. temperature (Maximum & minimum), rainfall (mm), soil temperature (°C), radiation (MJm-1 day-1), photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) in pearl millet. The research covers critical growing environm...

A study was performed at Department of Plant Pathology during year 2020, CCS Haryana Agricultural University to find the effect of different growing environments on temperature and humidity profile development, yield and its attributes in clusterbean crop. Three varieties of clusterbean varieties i.e. HG 365 (V1), HG 563 (V2) and HG 2-20 (V3) with...

It's based on the IoT based technological tools used in the Agromet advisories service to the farmers of Haryana. Display, available the weather-based information’s by dynamically and information utilized by scientific community, farming, students, planner, media and livestock management persons. Displaying the actual-forecasted weather entities da...

A field experiment was conducted in kharif season 2020 to study the effect of sowing time and row spacing on growth, yield and agro-climatic indices of Cotton at Research Farm, Department of Agricultural Meteorology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar. The experiment was performed in split-plot design and replicated thrice. The experiment i...

A field experiment was performed to study the effect of different sowing times and varieties on agroclimatic indices, phenology and growth of clusterbean at CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar (Haryana). Experiment was laid out in factorial randomized block design with three replications. Treatments consists of two factors i.e. sowing time a...

A field experiment was conducted in kharif season 2020 to study the effect of sowing time and row spacing on growth, yield and agro-climatic indices

Plants’ microclimate has a crucial role to play in regulating and affecting their physiological reactions as well as their energy exchange activities. In this context, field experiment was laid out at Research Farm, Department of Agricultural Meteorology, CCS HAU, Hisar, during the kharif season 2020 with Bt cotton hybrid RCH 773 BGII and sown at t...

These compiled power point presentation for the advancement of fundamental agrometeorological instruments, its handling, data management (observed either agrometeorological & micrometeorological data at open field level, in the experiments or agromet observatory (Latitude: 29° 10’ N; Longitude: 75° 46’ E & Altitude: 215.2 Meters (AMSL), CCS HAU, Hi...

In this study the agricultural meteorological advisories service in the Haryana state and many beneficiaries of AAS or weather based agromet advisories bulletins facility to be provived to the stalk holder. the situation of number of Agromet field units (AMFU) and district agromet field units (DAMU) in the state and SMS (Agro-meteorology) serving f...

The Agro-climatic onset of crop season was calculated for 22 districts of Haryana states. The long period rainfall data from 1987 to 2017 was collected from India Meteorological Department (IMD), New Delhi. The main aim of this study is to obtain the conditions suitable for sowing of crops on the basis of rainfall event in the respective district....

Fusarium wilt, a devastating disease of chickpea is highly influenced by environmental conditions. Several reports have shown that host-plant resistance becomes ineffective as a result of changes in climatic factors. In this study, two chickpea varieties, JG 62 (wilt susceptible) and HC 5 (wilt resistant) were evaluated for changes in natural wilt...

This paper presents the evaluation of the air quality in different districts of Haryana. Geo-spatial techniques were used to estimate the spatial and temporal variation (2019-2020) of gaseous and particulate pollutants. Data of six fixed pollutants were collected from Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). In this context, data of the air pollutan...

An experiment was conducted during rabi seasons of 2015-16 and 2016-17 to study the phenology, accumulation of growing degree days (GDD), helio-thermal unit (HTU), photo-thermal unit (PTU), Heat use efficiency (HUE), Radiation use efficiency (RUE)and to assess the effects of thermal and radiation regimes on wheat at research farm of Department of A...

The microclimate was evaluated for the pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] crop at different height inside the crop canopy. Field experiments were conducted during autumn seasons and temperature was measured at bottom, middle and top of the crop canopy at panicle initiation stage, boot stage, 50 per cent flowering, dough stage and physiol...

In this experimental study in spatial distribution of climate change indices of rainfall indices for Haryana, India. Under this study considered long period average of meteorological parameters (1985-2014).

Field trail was conducted at the Research Farm of Cotton Section, Department of Genetics & Plant Breeding, CCS HAU, Hisar (Lat 29 ᵒ 10' N, Long 75 ᵒ 46' E and 215.2 m msl) during Kharif season of 2015. The experiment was conducted in split-split plot design with three replications. Three varieties viz. V1=RCH 602, V2=RCH 650 and V3=Bunty were kept...

Background: Pigeonpea, a nutritious crop grown in wide range of environmental condition both in tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. Time of sowing, a non- monetary input, ensures the complete harmony between vegetative and reproductive phases on one hand whereas on the other hand it also maintain the rhythm of the climate with crop. Fur...

Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University in collaboration with India Meteorological Department, Ministry of Earth Sciences, GoI has been rendering weather forecast based Agromet Advisory Service (AAS) for benefit of farmers in the state through Agromet Field Units (AMFU) on Tuesday and Friday for next five days. Farmers of Haryana hav...

The impact of climate influences like temperature and rainfall variation on the wheat yield in different states of India by using regression analysis statistical method has been examined in this study. The grid data of few climatic parameters and crop data were analyzed for fourteen states of Indian subcontinent during 1950 to 2015. A key observati...

A two-year field experiment was conducted at the Research Farm of Cotton Section, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar to illustrate the effects of weather parameters on biochemical constituents viz.protein content, oil content, sugar content and gossypol content of desicotton vari...

Air pollution is one of the major problems in the world that cause a great loss to the agriculture. The growths of both unplanned industrial and residential area in many developing cities of India are contributing to the air pollution problems. There are different types of air pollutants that cause injuries to plant viz., carbon monoxide, sulfur di...

Field experiment was conducted at research farm of Department of Agricultural Meteorology, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar (long.750 46 / E, lat. 29010 / N and alti. 215.2 meters MSL) during Rabi season of the year 2015-16., to study the phenology and, heat and radiation use efficiency in wheat. Crop was sown on three...

The survey was conducted during Rabi seasons of 2015-16 and 2016-17 at different locations of NW India, at HAU, Hisar. Yellow rust severity was recorded at 15 days intervals. Disease severity was higher (70%) during Rabi 2015-16 as compared to 2016-17 (60%) during both years (Pooled data). The maximum temperature, minimum temperature and Vapour pre...

The field experiment was conducted to quantify the optical characteristics for growth development, seed cotton yield and quality parameters, oil and protein contents at the research area of the Department of Agricultural Meteorology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, during the kharif season of 2015-16. The main plots treatments consisted...

The study was based on historical data for a period of 35 years (1980 Agroclimatic zone of Haryana. Stepwise multiple regression technique was applied with yield as dependent variable and weather parameters (artificial variables generated from weekly weather values) as independent variables. Another six years' data (2010-11 to 2015-16) were used fo...

Suitability analysis in agriculture is a prerequisite for optimum utilization of the available land resources. The present study was to find out suitable zones for rice cultivation based on climatic and physical factors of production using GIS approach. The study was carried out for Haryana state (27 o 39′ N to 30 o 55′ N latitudes and 74 o 27′ E t...

The field experiment was conducted at the research area of the Department of Agricultural Meteorology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, during the kharif season of 2015- 16. The main plots treatments consisted of three date of sowing 2nd week of May (D1), 3rd week of May (D2) and 1st week of June (D3) and sub-plots consisted of three var...

Suitability analysis in agriculture is a prerequisite for optimum utilization of the available land resources. The present study was to find out suitable zones for rice cultivation based on climatic and physical factors of production using GIS approach. The study was carried out for Haryana state (27 o 39′ N to 30 o 55′ N latitudes and 74 o 27′ E t...

A field experiment was conducted at research area of Department of Agricultural Meteorology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, during the kharif season of 2013-14. The main plots treatments consisted of four date of sowing (2 nd week of April, 4 th week of April, 2 nd week of May and 1st week of June) and the sub-plots consisted of three...

The field experiment was conducted at the research area of the Department of Agricultural Meteorology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, during the kharif season of 2015-16. The main plots treatments consisted of three date of sowing 2nd week of May (D1), 3rd week of May (D2) and 1st week of June (D3) and sub-plots consisted of three vari...

Field investigation was undertaken to evaluate the performance of cotton cultivars (HD 123, H 1098 and RASI 134) under different sowing environments and changing microclimate during the kharif 2013-14. Radiation and thermal use efficiency (TUE) were computed at different phenophases in all the treatments. Crop sown during 2nd week of April consumed...

Field research was conducted at Research Farm of CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar to evaluate the relationship of crop growth, fodder biomass and yield with agrometeorological indices in pear millet. Pearl millet crop was sown in randomized block design with 13 fertility levels of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P 2 O 5), and potassium (K 2 O)...

Wheat and mustard crop is highly vulnerable, particularly in the semi-arid and arid regions of India. The climate is warming through the processes such as CO2 and changed pattern of temperature and precipitation resulting in heat and drought stresses, respectively. The effect of increasing temperature during grain filling stage of wheat causes subs...

Plum prefers temperate climate however, it has been found growing from higher hills in Srinagar to Jaipur in Rajasthan. Kala Amritsari, Satluj Purple and Titron cultivars of plum planted at experimental orchard of CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar farm in the year 2001 on which the present study was done during the year 2013-14. The overal...

The field experiment was conducted for agrometeorological indices of cotton crop under different growing environments with 3 cotton cultivars i.e. HS 6, RASI 134 and MRC 6304 and 2 dates of sowing viz., 30 th April and 30 th May at Research Farm, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding CCSHAU Hisar at longitude of 75 0 46 / E and latitude of 29 0...

Present study was designed to determine the effect of various growing environments on sucking pest population dynamics in cotton and to work out their relation with spectral indices. Crop spectral reflectance in four IRS bands was measured with ground truth radiometer during 1000–1200 h in all the treatment combinations. Incidence of sucking pest i...

Present study was designed to reveal the impact of different meteorological factors on sucking pest population dynamics and to work out multiple regression equations using different weather parameters and spectral indices. Leafhopper population was positively correlated with T-max (Maximum temperature), T-min (Minimum temperature), RHM (Morning RH)...

In order to identify potential traits determining yield under terminal heat stress during grain filling stages, correlation and path coefficients analyses were conducted to study character associations among 25 morphological and physiological traits in a set of genetically divergent 36 bread wheat genotypes under normal and late sown conditions. Gr...

An investigation was conducted at Department of Agricultural Meteorology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University Hisar using meteorological data of 60 years (1941-2000) to study the climatic variability and trends in maximum and minimum temperature and rainfall. CERES models were used to determine the impact of future trend scenarios on productivity o...

Pearl millet is an important food crop of the world in arid and semiarid tropics. The crop can be grown on the poorest soil and under harsh climatic conditions where no other crop can grow (Singh, 1995). Downy mildew [Sclerospora graminicola (Sacc.)] is one of the major biotic yield reducing factors for this crop. Mittar and Tandon (1930) confirmed...

The downy mildew constitutes an important group of plant diseases affecting plant species. The data of 10 years (1991-2000) of downy mildew in pearl millet var. HB 3 recorded at the experimental field of CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar were taken to develop the regression models for prediction of downy mildew progression in the crop base...

A field study on growth and yield relationship with agrometeorological parameters in barley was carried out during rabi season of the year 2004-05 at the Research Farm of Department of Agricultural Meteorology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar (29°10′ N, 75°46′ E and 215.2 m altitude. The four cultivars of barley viz., BH 393, BH 75, Bh 3...

A field experiment was conducted to study the effect of row spacing and fertility levels on microclimate and grain yield of clusterbean (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba L.) crop at Research Farm of CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar during the kharif season of 2007-08. The experiment was laid out in split plot design with three replications and con...

A field experiment was conducted to study the relationship of sucking pest population with microclimate of cotton under different sowing dates at the Research Farm of Department of Entomology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar. The two cotton cultivars, HS 6 and H 1226 were sown on two dates of sowing, 15 April and 15 May during kharif sea...

Studies were conducted during, 1999-2005 on the population dynamics of leafhopper [Amrasca biguttula biguttula (Ishida)], of upland cotton(Gossypium hirsutum L.). Nymphal counts of the pest were made at biweekly interval from twenty random plants in the field taking three fully formed leaves in the upper canopy of each plant. Data on pest populatio...

A field experiment was conducted in split plot design with four replications at Research Farm of CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, India during two consecutive years (2002-03 and 2003-04) to evaluate impact of agrometerological variables on nitrogen uptake and crude protein content in wheat. The experiment comprised of twelve treatments:...

The study was conducted at CCS Haryana Agricultural University Hisar. The daily meteorological data of winter seasons (December to February) of past 20 years from 1982 to 2002 were used. Mean frosty days were maximum in January (12.7) followed by December (8.5) and February (5.7). The CV was less in January as compared to December and February. Max...

Field study was conducted to find out the influence of growing environments on optical and physiological characteristics, nitrogen uptake, grain quality and yield of wheat. The observations on agrophysiological parameters were taken at different phenological stages. The per cent absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) was higher at anthe...

Field experiments were conducted during 1998–99 and 1999–2000 at research farm of the Department of Agricultural Meteorology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar. Five wheat cultivars: WH 542, PBW 343, UP 2338, Raj 3765 and Sonak were sown on 25th November, 10th and 25th December with four nitrogen levels viz., no nitrogen. 50, 100 and 150%...