Crop production is a constantly evolving concept and faces significant constraints due to various factors. Climate change, along with biotic and abiotic stresses, poses potential threats to crop growth and development. This phenomenon particularly challenges the production of cool season vegetables compared to warm season vegetables. Potatoes, for example, prefer cooler weather, making their tuber development phase especially sensitive to extreme climate changes. These changes pose global threats to potato production and food security. Potatoes are sensitive to temperature fluctuations, water stress, soil conditions, as well as biotic stresses such as disease evolution and insect attacks. While warmer temperatures can promote plant growth, they also increase the risk of heat stress during tuber formation. On the other hand, colder temperatures or frost events can damage potato crops affecting both yield and quality. To address these impacts on potato cultivation resulting from climate change, farmers may need to adopt various adaptation strategies. These include switching to more heat-tolerant potato varieties, introducing water-efficient irrigation techniques, crop rotation, bettering soil management practices that enhance resilience against extreme weather events, and integrating pest and disease monitoring and management plans into overall crop management strategies.

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Impact of Climate Change on Potatoes and Mitigation Strategies

  • Menka Pathak,
  • Kartik Pramanik,
  • Satyaprakash Barik,
  • Mahendra Prasad Das,
  • Himansu Sekhar Gouda,
  • Debashis Dash

摘要

Crop production is a constantly evolving concept and faces significant constraints due to various factors. Climate change, along with biotic and abiotic stresses, poses potential threats to crop growth and development. This phenomenon particularly challenges the production of cool season vegetables compared to warm season vegetables. Potatoes, for example, prefer cooler weather, making their tuber development phase especially sensitive to extreme climate changes. These changes pose global threats to potato production and food security. Potatoes are sensitive to temperature fluctuations, water stress, soil conditions, as well as biotic stresses such as disease evolution and insect attacks. While warmer temperatures can promote plant growth, they also increase the risk of heat stress during tuber formation. On the other hand, colder temperatures or frost events can damage potato crops affecting both yield and quality. To address these impacts on potato cultivation resulting from climate change, farmers may need to adopt various adaptation strategies. These include switching to more heat-tolerant potato varieties, introducing water-efficient irrigation techniques, crop rotation, bettering soil management practices that enhance resilience against extreme weather events, and integrating pest and disease monitoring and management plans into overall crop management strategies.