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Climate-smart policies for Indian agriculture

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Title Climate-smart policies for Indian agriculture
 
Creator Padhee, A K
 
Subject Abiotic Stress
Climate Change
Indian Agriculture
India
 
Description 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.
 
Publisher Indian Council of Agricultural Research
 
Date 2018-10
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10900/1/Padhee%20article%20in%20Indian%20Farming%20Oct%202018.pdf
Padhee, A K (2018) Climate-smart policies for Indian agriculture. Indian Farming, 68 (10). pp. 61-63.