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Climate change has emerged as a major challenge to our agriculture, indeed to the management of our economy as a whole. The immediate problems that our farmers face relate to intra-seasonal variability of rainfall, extreme events and unseasonal rains. These aberrations cause heavy losses to our crops every year. There is therefore an urgent necessity for us to devise appropriate adaptation and mitigation strategies for gearing up our efforts to evolve climateresilient crop varieties, cropping patterns and water management practices for ensuring food security, enhancing livelihood opportunities and contributing to economic stability at the national level. Robust mechanisms to strengthen interactions between agricultural scientists and our farmers and also ensure better convergence between research and developmental needs. The research papers in the proceedings of National Seminar on Water Management and Climatic Smart Agriculture is reviewing the current climate change policy responses fall short of addressing the realities of poor rural farmers who are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and paint an alternative way forward by defining innovative techno-economic-eco-resilient strategies to overcome the gaps of contemporary mitigation and adaptation programmes in agriculture by bringing to the fore the actual priorities, needs, and knowledge of farming communities themselves and suggest suitable recommendations to farming community and Government organizations to look far and wide in our agricultural research system and will succeed in delivering the national goals on agricultural productivity whatever be the odds.

Table of Contents:
2nd Vol:- 1. 21st Century Climate Change Scenario of Haridwar District in Uttarakhand 9 S.K. Dubey, S.K. Tripathi, G. Pranuthi 2. Long Term Temperature Trends around Six Cities in North East India Using Mann-Kendall and Sen’s Slope Technique 21 S.R. Kumar 3. Joint Event and Continuous Hydrological Modeling Using HECHMS- A Suitable Strategy for Improving Modeling Efficiency 34 G.L. Chunale, S.D. Gorantiwar, G.U. Satpute 4. Condensed Disaggregation Procedure for Simulating Monthly Rainfall 45 R. Subbaiah, R.N. Das and R.N. Yasaswi 5. Artificial Neural Networks for Rainfall Forecasting 59 P.M. Kyada, Kumar Pravendra and R.A. Kachhadiya 6. Modelling and Simulating the Climate Change Impact on Water Resources System in Ozat Basin using SWAT 70 H.D. Rank, J.H. Kelaiya, D.M. Pardava, R.J. Patel, H.V. Parmar, H.H. Mashru and P.B. Vekariya 7. Development of Short Period Rainfall Forecasting Models Using Artificial Neural Network 84 M.A. Sojitra, R.C. Purohit, Mahesh Kothari and K.K. Yadav 8. Rainfall Forecast Model for Agriculture Water Allocation Planning in Madhya Pradesh 97 Arun Jhajharia, Shrikant and Sumeet Meshram 9. Trend Analysis of Climatological Parameters using Mann-Kendal Test: A Case Study of Vadodara District, Gujarat, India 109 I.S. Risaldar, T.M.V. Suryanarayana & Falguni. P. Parekh 10. Application of Artificial Neural Networks to Rainfall Disaggregation 119 R.N. Yasaswi, R.N. Das and R. Subbaiah 11. Drought Investigation using the Standardised Precipitation Index 129 R.N. Das, R.N. Yasaswi, R. Subbaiah, and S. Pandya 12. Forecasting Weekly Temperature with Seasonal ARIMA Model 139 P.A. Damor, R. Subbaiah, G.V. Prajapati, H.D. Rank and H.V. Parmar 13. An Assessment of Potential Surface and Groundwater Resources of Bhadar River Basin of Gujarat State using SWAT Model 148 J.H. Kelaiya, D.M. Paradava, R.J. Patel, H.V. Parmar, H.H. Mashru, P.B. Vekariya and H.D. Rank 14. A Systematic Month-Wise Trends of Temperature and Rainfall in Junagadh (Saurashtra Region) of Gujarat, India: A Study 158 Bhavin Ram, S.S. Chianchorkar, A.N. Kunapara, F.G. Sayyad and M.S. Khardiwar 15. Development of Statistical Models for Forecasting of Gram Crop Yield for Amreli District of Gujarat State 172 N.J. Rankja and P.B. Maraviya 16. Comparative Assessment of Meteorological Drought Indices for Amravati District 180 Chaitali V. Thakare, G.U. Satpute, and Suhas K. Upadhye 17. Water Management and Climatic Smart Agriculture 193 Mausumi Raychaudhuri and S. K. Ambast 18. Wastewater Management and Climate Smart Agriculture 202 Mausumi Raychaudhuri and S. Raychaudhuri 19. Runoff Yield Modelling Using Artificial Neural Networks for a Small Agricultural Watershed of Dhar, Madhya Pradesh 214 Satish K. Sharma, M.K. Hardaha and Vijay K.S ingh 20. Rainfall-Runoff Modelling and Determination of Threshold Rainfall for Runoff Generation 224 N.H.Patel and T.M.V. Suryanarayana 21. Estimation of Groundwater Recharge through Water Harvesting Structures in Meghal River Basin using Remote Sensing and GIS 232 N. K. Gontia and P. P. Rathod 236 22. Cropping Pattern Optimisation for Surface and Drip Irrigated Canal Command Area 242 R.M. Satasiya and R. Subbaiah 23. Development of Land Capability Classification for Soil and Water Conservation Planning and Management using Remote Sensing and GIS 253 H. V. Parmar, R. Subbaiah, G. V. Prajapati, P. A. Damor and A. B. Kheni 24. Remote Sensing Derived Vegetation Indices to Assess the Crop Water Requirement in Ozat-II Canal Command 267 H. V. Parmar and N. K. Gontia 25. Groundwater Recharge Potential of Harvested Roof Water in Junagadh Region 282 P. B. Vekariya, H. D. Rank, J. H. Kelaiya, D. M. Paradava R. J. Patel, H. V. Parmar and H. H. Mashru 26. Climate Change Assessment for Ozat Basin of Saurashtra Region of Gujarat state, India 294 D. M. Paradava, R. J. Patel, H. V. Parmar, H. H. Mashru, P. B. Vekariya, H. D. Rank and J. H. Kelaiya 27. Estimating the Water Balance Component in Canal Command Area of Jhansi Minor (Left Bank Canal of Bargi) 309 Sumeet Meshram, Shri Kant, Arun Jhajhariya and Navneet Singh Parmar 28. Prioritisation of Watershed Development by Estimating Soil Loss using Remote Sensing and GIS 320 R. J. Patel, H. V. Parmar, H. H. Mashru, P. B. Vekariya, H. D. Rank, J. H. Kelaiya and D. M. Paradava 29. Impact of Climate Change on Hydraulic Properties, Profile Water Storage Capacity, Reserve Water and Water Balance in the Coastal Soils of Southern Saurashtra Region of Gujarat 337 S. G. Savalia, J. D. Gundaliya, S. P. Kachhadia and H.P. Patel 30. Analysis of Climate Change Impact on Rainfall for Gujarat State 346 N. S. Vithlani, H. D. Rank, J. K. Christian and H. J. Vala 31. Quality of Irrigation Water in Coastal Bhavnagar District of Gujarat 357 K. B. Polara and S. G. Rajput 32. Influence of Climate Change on Different Land Forms of Coastal Soils in Meghal Irrigation Command of Gujarat 364 H. P. Patel, S. G. Savalia and S.T. Shirgire 33. Recent Environmental Archaeological Investigation in Bhima Basin: A case study from Man, Sina and Bhima River from parts of Solapur District of Maharashtra 376 S. D. Kshirsagar, P. D. Sabale, S. V. Joshi and Goyal Pankaj 34. Watershed Characteristics and Prioritisation of Shetrunji River Basin using GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques 388 Wandre S.S. and H. D. Rank 35. Quality of Irrigation Water in Junagadh District of Gujarat 400 N. B. Babaria, K. B. Polara and K. P. Sojitra 36. Porous Pavement: A new way of recharging ground water 407 Neelima Palagani, Alka Singh, Tatte Sumathi and M Sree Devi List of Contributors 415