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Sustainable agricultural production needs activities which provide information aimed at helping tactical decision makers apply weather and climate information to minimize negative consequences of adverse weather and to take advantage of favorable weather conditions. In order to benefit from weather and climate information, decision makers must possess flexibility to change their practices in response to the improved information (Sonka et al. 1986). Most difficulties in decision making become apparent with the identification and recognition of available alternatives, the determination of relevant attributes, and collection of relevant information (Backus et al. 1997). Farmer participation is encouraged for the development and promotion of new agricultural strategies and tactics suited to low-resource farmers living in environments described as complex, diverse and risk prone (Bruntland 1993). Participatory methods are required to meet farmer needs in less productive and highly variable environments, helping to make better informed tactical farm decisions (Hartmann et al. 2002).
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Das, H., Stigter, C. (2010). Designing and Selecting Weather Related Tactical Applications for Agricultural Management and Increasing Their Efficiencies: Monocropping. In: Stigter, K. (eds) Applied Agrometeorology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74698-0_21
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