Effectiveness of the Employment of Vegetable Covering as Measure of Adaptation to the Climate Change

With the objective of estimating the effectiveness of the employment of vegetable covering as measure of adaptation to make in front of the future climate in a severe scenario in the cultivations corn, rice and tomato in different productive scenarios in Camaguey province, Cuba, were considered the yields and the quantity of water in diverse irrigation regimens, condition of covering use, and a severe scenario of climatic change in three cooperatives of Camaguey province, starting from the simulation the yields and the quantity of watering water were compared among conditions of covering use and between future climatic periods and the climate bases, and was considered the effectiveness of the covering use, as for the recovery of yields in unirrigated and irrigated land; for there were simulated it through the pattern AquaCrop 6.0 cultivation campaigns starting from the study of six groups of irrigation regimens, three covering goods on the evaporation and the superficial movement of the water, twelve plantation dates and 120 years, of these, for the first 30 the meteorological data were interpolated of historical registrations and for the rest they were estimated by construction of scenarios.A database was obtained and was concluded that the covering use has a great potential as measure of adaptation and also as handling technique, but required to consider the local conditions to guarantee the success.