Abstract:<p>In rain-fed systems, efficient and timely crop planning is crucial to maximize crop production, adapt to climate variability, and increase the sustainability and resilience of the production systems. Smallholder farmers plan and anticipate possible interventions during the season based on the actual onset of the monsoon. However, their knowledge to define and predict the monsoon onset is limited to traditional methods whose predictive skill decreases significantly with a recent increase in bot… Show more
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