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National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA)

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Title National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA)
National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA)
 
Creator NICRA
 
Subject droughts, floods, frost, heat waves, etc.
 
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There has been a significant rise in the frequency of extreme weather events in recent years affecting
farm level productivity and impacting staple food grains availability at the national level. Within a
season, severe droughts and floods are being experienced in the same region posing serious
problems to the farmers, agricultural scientists and extension staff. Fall in yield leads to shortage of
food grains, price rise and inflation affecting the poor most. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to
enhance the resilience of Indian Agriculture to climate change. Both application of improved
technologies and new policies will contribute to resilience. There is also abundant traditional
wisdom among farmers to cope with climate variability which will be captured and documented in
the project.
Since climate change poses complex challenges like multiple abiotic stresses on crops and livestock,
shortage of water, land degradation and loss of bio-diversity, a focused and long term research is
required to find solutions to the problems specific to our country. The necessary infrastructure to
carry out basic and strategic research has to be put in place. At the same time, there is a scope to
improve the resilience of agriculture by application of existing knowledge and technology on
farmers' field as a holistic package. Hence, this integrated proposal is made both to develop
improved technologies through short term and long term research and also demonstrate the
existing technologies on farmers' fields for enhancing the resilience.
The scheme attempts to develop and promote climate resilient technologies in agriculture which
will address vulnerable areas of the country. The outputs of the scheme will help the districts and
regions prone to extreme weather conditions like droughts, floods, frost, heat waves, etc. to cope
with such extremes. Although the target area of the scheme are all climatically vulnerable regions
of the country, small and marginal farmers in rainfed, coastal and hill areas will benefit more in
view of the focused attention in these regions.
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Date 2021-07-20T09:38:42Z
2021-07-20T09:38:42Z
2012-07-19
 
Type Technical Report
 
Identifier Not Available
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/49180
 
Language English
 
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Publisher NICRA