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SMART PRACTICES & TECHNOLOGIES for Climate Resilient Agriculture

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Title SMART PRACTICES & TECHNOLOGIES for Climate Resilient Agriculture
SMART PRACTICES & TECHNOLOGIES for Climate Resilient Agriculture
 
Creator ICAR_CRIDA_AICRPAM
 
Subject SMART PRACTICES,TECHNOLOGIES
 
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The National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) is a multi-institutional,
multi-disciplinary network project launched by ICAR in 2011. The project aims to enhance
resilience of Indian agriculture to climate change and climate variability through strategic
research and technology demonstrations. Technology Demonstration Component (TDC) of
NICRAoffers a great opportunity to work with farmers to address current climate variability
with matching responses. On-farm participatory demonstrations of available technologies
are being implemented in 100 most vulnerable districts. Climatic vulnerabilities addressed
are drought, flood, cyclone, heat wave, cold wave etc. Interventions include resource
conservation practices and technologies for natural resource management, and efficient use
of resources and inputs for improved crop, livestock and fisheries production. Realizing the
need for support in the form of better access to farm machinery and implements for wider
adoption of resilient practices and technologies by farmers, custom hiring centres (CHCs)
were established in the NICRAvillages. Village climate risk management committees were
established to prioritize the interventions, resource allocations and running of village level
institutions like CHCs.
The overall focus of technology demonstrations under NICRA is to enhance resilience of
farms and the farming community to climate risks so as to ensure sustainability over a period
of time. Enhancing resilience is the key to achieve sustainability in agriculture especially in
the context of climate vulnerability. Thus the focus is on adaptation to climate variability and
entails appropriate responses to contingency situations. Sustainability is the immediate goal
in highly intensive production systems facing natural resource degradation. Therefore, the
main focus of technology demonstrations in such regions is not on enhancing productivity
but on interventions related to coping with vulnerability as well as improvement in natural
resource use efficiency for sustaining the productivity gains already achieved.
This publication attempts to capture and highlight some of the key interventions that were
successful in participatory demonstrations and have the potential for further up-scaling
though various Missions under the National Action Plan for Climate Change (NAPCC),
especially under the National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture. Technology
demonstrations will be expanded to cover more climatically vulnerable districts in the XII
plan and we believe that many more resilient practices and technologies to address climate
risks will be identified for mainstreaming and further up-scaling
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Date 2020-01-17T09:49:03Z
2020-01-17T09:49:03Z
2014-07-01
 
Type Technical Report
 
Identifier Not Available
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/30832
 
Language English
 
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Publisher ICAR_CRIDA_AICPRAM_NICRA