Published in Scientific Papers. Series A. Agronomy, Vol. LXVII, Issue 1
Written by Floriana Maria STEFAN, Adrian GHINEA, Carmen CHELMEA
In line with the priorities of the European Green Deal, in particular the climate adaptation strategy and the EU's climate change mitigation ambition for the years 2030 and 2050, assessing potato resilience in a changing climate to face both natural and induced hazards by humans, requires planning, management and extension of researches. Thus, a long-term multiannual climate synthesis (over 25 years) was carried out, in order to evaluate temporal potato resilience in areas with known favorability for potato cultivation in Romania (Brasov, Covasna, Harghita, Suceava, Dolj). Interlinking synthesis results supports attenuation and adaptation to identified emerging threats. The trend during the potato vegetation period (April-October) was highlighted and the hydro-thermal coefficient was calculated. In all traditional areas of potato cultivation, a constant trend of increasing air temperature and decreasing precipitation during the summer has been observed, especially in the flowering-maturing phenophase, when the plants achieve maximum water consumption, with a very important role in the process of intense accumulation of production.
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