Agro-Climatic Regional Planning in India (In 2 Volumes)

The agro-climatic regional planning project (ACRP) of the planning commission was initiated with a view to provide technical and scientific inputs for the agriculture & allied sectors during the VIII plan. the ACRP recognize in an explicit manner the nature of the local resource endowments and constraints of the agro- climatically homogenous region, which in most cases cut across the states. this concept give greater consideration to the inherent commonality of the basic agro-meteorological features and water resources in the agro-climatic regions, which are recognized as more appropriate units of planning, than the states.