ABSTRACT
The earth is warming up. Climate change is one of the biggest long-term challenges around the world. In Himachal Pradesh, evidence of global warming is suggested by changes like receding snowfall in the Himalayas, retreating glaciers and a shift in the temperate fruit belt upward, shifting and shortening of the rabi (winter) season, and disrupted rainfall pattern (Bhagat et al., 2004). The impact of climate change has also been observed in production of apples and Satsuma mandarins in Japan. It has been predicted that regions favourable to the cultivation of apples and Satsuma mandarins will gradually move northward (Sugiura and Yokozawa, 2004).
