Padhee, A K (2018) Climate-smart policies for Indian agriculture. Indian Farming, 68 (10). pp. 61-63.
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Abstract
Climate change is perhaps the most extreme challenge in agriculture in India and across the world is facing now-a-days and has to deal within future. There have been overwhelming and growing scientific evidences to establish that the world is getting warmer due to climate change and such increasing weather variabilities and worsening extremes will impact the agriculture sector more and more adversely.The growth story of Indian agriculture since the days of food scarcity (in the mid-1960s) to the present satisfactory production level of food grains has been very impressive. In these efforts, land degradation and environmental challenges have however, emerged to thwart sustainability of agri-food systems. The frequent occurrences of natural disasters like food, drought, storms, hails, cyclones have led to severe hardship and farm distress. Feeding a growing population and ensuring food and nutritional security in future thus becomes a daunting challenge in a changing climate. It is estimated that the requirement of annual food grains would be to the level of 450 million metric tonnes against the current production of 257 to 285 million tonne during 2012-13 to 2017-18 for a burgeoning Indian population which is projected at 1.65 billion in 2050.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Divisions: | UNSPECIFIED |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Climate change, Agriculture, Climate, Policies, India, Environmental challenges |
| Subjects: | Others > Abiotic Stress Others > Climate Change Others > Indian Agriculture Others > India |
| Depositing User: | Mr Ramesh K |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Oct 2018 08:02 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2018 08:02 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/10900 |
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| Acknowledgement: | Indian Farming, the monthly journal of the ICAR (in its 68th year of publication) has dedicated its October issue on the theme of World Food Day 2018. This article is part of the special edition. |
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