Effect of weather variables on the yield of rice crop in District Jaunpur, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract

India is an important centre of rice cultivation. The rice is cultivated on the largest areas in India. Rice is the major crop of Uttar Pradesh, which covers about 36.5 per cent area of total gross-cropped area in Uttar Pradesh. The present study mainly deals with the effect on weather variables. The study has been undertaken for rice crop in the district Jaunpur, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. The present study is formulated to determine the individual effect of weather variables on rice yield. On the basis of R2, we found that individually Maximum Temperature is more important with 57.8 followed by sunshine (hr.), rainfall, Minimum Temperature, and wind velocity with 54.2, 52.2, 30.1 and 5.32 respectively.