Commission for Agricultural Meteorology (CAgM): the first fifty years
Agricultural meteorology as an accepted term first came into use in the 1920s. In its first 40 years, the science developed in the western world, Japan, India and China. However, since the 1980s, the field of agricultural meteorology has seen significant developments and modifications. Since the 1960s, the regions where it has been applied have increased, but water balances and evaporation in temperate climates became, and have remained, the most treated subjects. However, with increasing application in the developing world with its more abundant weather and climate disasters, the definition needed to be widened to include tropical agrometeorology.