Assessment of long-term climate variability and its impact on the decadal growth of horticultural crops in central India

Ecological Processes

Table 2 The trend in annual precipitation of 115 years (1901–2016) in the 15 districts of Madhya Pradesh state of central India selected for study as per Mann–Kendall test and Sen’s estimator indicating a non-significant change in long-term trend at all the studied districts of Madhya Pradesh except for the Khargone and Rewa districts

Districts	Mann–Kendall statistics	Tau	P-value	Sen’s slope	Probable change
Balaghat	− 384	− 0.057	0.360	− 0.574	49 (1949)
Bhind	− 276	− 0.041	0.511	− 0.409	85 (1985)
Bhopal	362	− 0.054	0.389	-0.521	78 (1978)
Chhatarpur	− 822	− 0.123	0.317	− 1.440	83 (1983)
Chhindwara	− 128	− 0.019	0.761	− 0.189	62 (1962)
Guna	338	0.050	0.421	0.413	30 (1930)
Gwalior	− 202	− 0.030	0.631	− 0.298	85 (1985)
Hoshangabad	114	0.017	0.787	0.213	21 (1921)
Indore	758	0.113	0.070	1.018	29 (1929)
Jabalpur	− 14	− 0.002	0.975	− 0.010	83 (1983)
Khargone	1306	0.195	0.001	1.436	29 (1929)
Neemuch	− 282	− 0.042	0.502	− 0.410	79 (1979)
Rewa	− 882	− 0.132	0.035	− 1.448	82 (1982)
Sagar	− 56	− 0.008	0.895	− 0.152	83 (1983)
Tikamgarh	− 226	− 0.033	0.591	− 0.428	83 (1983)