Abstract
Extreme weather events and negative impacts on Egyptian agriculture.
Highlights
The extreme weather or climate event term refers to “an occurrence of a value of a weather or climate variable beyond a threshold that lies near the end of the range of observations for the variable” (IPCC, 2012)
This study focuses on four extreme weather events which have been occurred in the recent past years
Extreme weather events can impact crops both via negative impacts on plant physiological processes and direct physical damage, as well as by affecting the timing and conditions of field operations
Summary
Agriculture sector is highly sensitive to climate variability and Received: 27 October 2016 Final Accepted: 25 November 2016 Published: December 2016 weather extremes. This study focuses on four extreme weather events which have been occurred in the recent past years (extreme heat and cold temperatures, extreme wind, and extreme precipitation). The data of maximum and minimum temperatures during this month and normals were obtained from Central Laboratory for Agricultural Climate and the damages of crops percentage was collected from agricultural statistics (Economic affairs sector- Ministry of agriculture and land reclamation). Egyptian agriculture faces serious risks from climate variability; caused significant negative impacts on the current yield of the major crops and other environmental conditions might this have disastrous consequences, in terms of reducing present production and the concomitant reduction of farmers‟ incomes. The change in optimum temperature by warming or cold and intensity of extreme weather events may lead to significant reductions in crop yields, expanded ranges of crop pests and altered transmission dynamics of insect pests and plant diseases increase
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