Introduction At the 22nd Session of the Intergovernmental Group on Tea (IGG/Tea) which took place on 2527 May 2016 in Naivasha, Kenya, and as per the decisions taken at the intersessional meeting in October 2015, the WG presented a publication entitled: "Research Report of Adaptation to Climate Change". The book was presented to the Secretary of the IGG/Tea, Mr Kaison Chang, and was adopted by the IGG/Tea. The Group commended the efforts of the WG in publishing the book and encouraged the other WGs to document their outputs in a similar manner, and the following action plan was proposed: The WG decided to work on vulnerability/suitability at micro scale for ease of implementation of adaptation strategies in different countries. The trend analysis would be further strengthened using different statistical models in order to determine the significance of climate trends and comparing them with the baseline. India Assessment of vulnerability/suitability at micro scale for ease of implementation of adaptation strategies Database collection and analysis Data collection and analysis of meteorological parameters has been further updated and carried out till the year 2016. The data in Fig 1 represent South bank region of Assam and the 98 years of rainfall data shows that it continues to exhibit an overall decline of more than 220 mm in the region. For minimum temperature it has been observed that a steep increase of 1.30C has been observed in South Bank, Assam (Fig. 2) which is a substantial increase and the trend is continuing. Fig 1. Annual total rainfall, 1918-2016 (South Bank, Assam, India) Fig 2. Annual average minimum temperature, 1923-2016 (South Bank, Assam, India) Well distributed abundant rainfall is the essential factor for the commercial viability and sustainability of tea production. Apart from the substantial decrease of 220 mm rainfall more detailed analysis of the rainfall data reveals that there are yearly variations with occurrence of low and high rainfall which make some years wet and some droughty. Also the frequency of extreme rainfall events has increased in last about 30 years, which results in occurrence of more drought and flood period compared to past. The monthly total rainfall data of the last 30 years
Introduction At the 22nd Session of the Intergovernmental Group on Tea (IGG/Tea) which took place on 2527 May 2016 in Naivasha, Kenya, and as per the decisions taken at the intersessional meeting in October 2015, the WG presented a publication entitled: "Research Report of Adaptation to Climate Change". The book was presented to the Secretary of the IGG/Tea, Mr Kaison Chang, and was adopted by the IGG/Tea. The Group commended the efforts of the WG in publishing the book and encouraged the other WGs to document their outputs in a similar manner, and the following action plan was proposed: The WG decided to work on vulnerability/suitability at micro scale for ease of implementation of adaptation strategies in different countries. The trend analysis would be further strengthened using different statistical models in order to determine the significance of climate trends and comparing them with the baseline. India Assessment of vulnerability/suitability at micro scale for ease of implementation of adaptation strategies Database collection and analysis Data collection and analysis of meteorological parameters has been further updated and carried out till the year 2016. The data in Fig 1 represent South bank region of Assam and the 98 years of rainfall data shows that it continues to exhibit an overall decline of more than 220 mm in the region. For minimum temperature it has been observed that a steep increase of 1.30C has been observed in South Bank, Assam (Fig. 2) which is a substantial increase and the trend is continuing. Fig 1. Annual total rainfall, 1918-2016 (South Bank, Assam, India) Fig 2. Annual average minimum temperature, 1923-2016 (South Bank, Assam, India) Well distributed abundant rainfall is the essential factor for the commercial viability and sustainability of tea production. Apart from the substantial decrease of 220 mm rainfall more detailed analysis of the rainfall data reveals that there are yearly variations with occurrence of low and high rainfall which make some years wet and some droughty. Also the frequency of extreme rainfall events has increased in last about 30 years, which results in occurrence of more drought and flood period compared to past. The monthly total rainfall data of the last 30 years
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