Drought Severity and its Effect on Agricultural Production in the Hungarian-Serbian Cross-Border Area
Several environmental and economic consequences of drought and the accompanying water shortage were observed in the plain area of the Carpathian Basin in the last decades. This area is mostly used for agriculture, thus it is a key problem in the future to maintain food safety in the changing circums...
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| author | Fiala Károly Blanka Viktória Ladányi Zsuzsanna Szilassi Péter Benyhe Balázs Dolinaj Dragan Pálfai Imre |
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| description | Several environmental and economic consequences of drought and the accompanying water shortage were observed in the plain area of the Carpathian Basin in the last decades. This area is mostly used for agriculture, thus it is a key problem in the future to maintain food safety in the changing circumstances. Therefore, involvement and identification of areas affected by drought hazard and revealing steps of efficient adaptation are of high importance. In this study influence of drought severity on agricultural production is investigated in the Hungarian-Serbian cross-border area. The tendency in drought severity was analysed by PaDI and MAI drought indices. The effect of drought on agricultural production is evaluated on maize yield data as the most drought sensitive crop in the region. Increasing drought frequency and severity was indicated for the study area for the period of 1961-2012. The spatial assessment of annual PaDI maps revealed the higher exposure of the north and northeastern part of the study area to drought, where drought frequency was also experienced to be the highest. Increased sensitivity was detected based on maize yield loss after the early 1990s and annual yields were in strong connection with d rought severity. In spite of the technological development of agriculture, environmental factors still substantially affect crop yie lds. The observed unfavourable changes in the region mean that water management and spatial planning faces conceptual challenges to prevent and mitigate the damages of drought. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-da408cf5a0a341e893dba3da92fb60ee2022-12-22T00:21:15ZengUniversity of SzegedJournal of Environmental Geography2060-467X2014-11-0173-4435110.2478/jengeo-2014-0011Drought Severity and its Effect on Agricultural Production in the Hungarian-Serbian Cross-Border AreaFiala Károly0Blanka Viktória1Ladányi Zsuzsanna2Szilassi Péter3Benyhe Balázs4Dolinaj Dragan5Pálfai Imre6Lower-Tisza Water Directorate, Stefánia 4, H-6720 Szeged, HungaryDepartment of Physical Geography and Geoinformatics, University of Szeged, Egyetem u. 2-6, H-6722 Szeged, HungaryDepartment of Physical Geography and Geoinformatics, University of Szeged, Egyetem u. 2-6, H-6722 Szeged, HungaryDepartment of Physical Geography and Geoinformatics, University of Szeged, Egyetem u. 2-6, H-6722 Szeged, HungaryLower-Tisza Water Directorate, Stefánia 4, H-6720 Szeged, HungaryClimatology and Hydrology Research Centre, Faculty of Science, University of Novi Sad, Dositeja Obradovića 3Lower-Tisza Water Directorate, Stefánia 4, H-6720 Szeged, HungarySeveral environmental and economic consequences of drought and the accompanying water shortage were observed in the plain area of the Carpathian Basin in the last decades. This area is mostly used for agriculture, thus it is a key problem in the future to maintain food safety in the changing circumstances. Therefore, involvement and identification of areas affected by drought hazard and revealing steps of efficient adaptation are of high importance. In this study influence of drought severity on agricultural production is investigated in the Hungarian-Serbian cross-border area. The tendency in drought severity was analysed by PaDI and MAI drought indices. The effect of drought on agricultural production is evaluated on maize yield data as the most drought sensitive crop in the region. Increasing drought frequency and severity was indicated for the study area for the period of 1961-2012. The spatial assessment of annual PaDI maps revealed the higher exposure of the north and northeastern part of the study area to drought, where drought frequency was also experienced to be the highest. Increased sensitivity was detected based on maize yield loss after the early 1990s and annual yields were in strong connection with d rought severity. In spite of the technological development of agriculture, environmental factors still substantially affect crop yie lds. The observed unfavourable changes in the region mean that water management and spatial planning faces conceptual challenges to prevent and mitigate the damages of drought.https://doi.org/10.2478/jengeo-2014-0011climate changedroughtpadiagricultureyield loss |
| spellingShingle | Fiala Károly Blanka Viktória Ladányi Zsuzsanna Szilassi Péter Benyhe Balázs Dolinaj Dragan Pálfai Imre Drought Severity and its Effect on Agricultural Production in the Hungarian-Serbian Cross-Border Area Journal of Environmental Geography climate change drought padi agriculture yield loss |
| title | Drought Severity and its Effect on Agricultural Production in the Hungarian-Serbian Cross-Border Area |
| title_full | Drought Severity and its Effect on Agricultural Production in the Hungarian-Serbian Cross-Border Area |
| title_fullStr | Drought Severity and its Effect on Agricultural Production in the Hungarian-Serbian Cross-Border Area |
| title_full_unstemmed | Drought Severity and its Effect on Agricultural Production in the Hungarian-Serbian Cross-Border Area |
| title_short | Drought Severity and its Effect on Agricultural Production in the Hungarian-Serbian Cross-Border Area |
| title_sort | drought severity and its effect on agricultural production in the hungarian serbian cross border area |
| topic | climate change drought padi agriculture yield loss |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/jengeo-2014-0011 |
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