Abstract

The object of this paper is to point out the possibilities of the application of the modern theory of statistics in the fruitful field of Agricultural Meteorology. As an example, a study of yield in relation to weather will be taken up. In this connection it is worth noticing that in 1927, Mr. J. H. Field, the then Director-General of Observatories, while giving his evidence before the Royal Commission on Agriculture in India, stressed the importance of the service which the Meteorological department can render to Indian agriculture by researches on the correlation between weather and crops. How the computed coefficients of correlation between yield and certain meteorological elements enable us to predict the yield in a certain year or period from a knowledge of the conditions of weather in that year or period, will be clear from the treatment of the topic taken up below.

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