Temperature increase by global warming has given rise to new types of blights and pests, causing damages to crops. Especially, damages to apples, peaches, grapes, and soybeans, by brown grasshoppers are reported to have been increasing.
Basically for rice, the cultivation period is the basic condition for planning its production, which is decided by the climate conditions and the rice variety. Among several agricultural climate conditions,
temperature is the critical factor in deciding the rice cultivation period
