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♤ To enhance the resilience of Indian agriculture covering crops, livestock and fisheries to climatic variability and climate change through development and application of improved production and risk management technologies
Project Components
♤ The project is comprised of four components.
1) Strategic research on adaptation and mitigation
2) Technology demonstration on farmers’ fields to cope with current climate variability
3) Sponsored and competitive research grants to fill critical research gaps
4) Capacity building of different stake holders
Strategic Research
♤ The strategic research has been planned at leading research institutes of ICAR in a network mode covering crops, horticulture, livestock, natural resource management and fisheries sectors.
♤ To begin with, the project is focusing on crops like wheat, rice, maize, pigeonpea, groundnut, tomato, mango and banana; cattle, buffalo and small ruminants among livestock and both marine and freshwater fish species of economic importance.
♤ The major research themes are:
♤ Vulnerability assessment of major production zones
♤ Linking weather based agro-advisories to contingency planning
♤ Assessing the impacts and evolving varieties tolerant to key climatic stresses (drought, heat, frost, flooding, etc.) in major food and horticulture crops
♤ Continuous monitoring of greenhouse gases in open field conditions in major production systems
♤ Evolving adaptation and mitigation strategies through enhancing water and nutrient use efficiency and conservation agriculture
♤ Studying changes in pest dynamics, pest/pathogen-crop relationships and emergence of new pests and pathogens under changing climate
♤ Adaptation strategies in livestock through nutritional and environmental manipulations
♤ Harnessing the beneficial effects of temperature in inland and marine fisheries through better understanding of the spawning behaviour.
♤ Seven major research institutes of the ICAR will work in unison to evolve coping technologies with Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), Hyderabad as the lead centre.
♤ Best-bet and cost-effective technologies to cope with climate variability will be demonstrated on farmers’ fields in 100 most vulnerable districts of the country.
♤ The technologies include rain water harvesting and its judicious use, in-situ moisture conservation, drought management strategies, seed and fodder banks, timely and precision agriculture, effective agro- advisory system using Information Communication Technology kiosks.
♤ Small and marginal farmers in rain-fed, coastal and hill areas will benefit more in view of the focused attention in these regions.
♤ Capacity building of scientists in frontier areas is another core activity of the project.
♤ To prepare all stakeholders to face challenges, multipronged awareness generation programs on issues of climate change are planned.
Do you know?
MoEF&CC initiated a national campaign named “Green Good Deeds” weaving around some 500 simple lifestyle habits that can be easily adopted, in an effort to sensitise the hazards of climate and global warming.