Block Level Analysis of Length of Growing Period in Virudhunagar District

Agriculture has been rightly termed as India's soul, the only sector holding a positive GDP even during COVID 19 pandemic. Such an important is vulnerable to several factors, such climate change, land use changes, market fluctuations, and other socio-economic factors. The climatic factors are major game changers in Agricultural production, especially with rainfall being decider of crop selection cropping pattern, whereas Potential Evapotranspiration mandatory gain knowledge on performance. Thus, understanding owes us benefit determining Length growing period (LGP), which could be used selection. LGP was analyzed from gridded APHRODITE data. analysis for three blocks Virudhunagar district Tamilnadu showed that there had 17-18 weeks differing within blocks. Crop needs accommodated this period, rainfed opt pulses millets.