Climate Change, caused by the increased concentration of greenhouse
gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere, has emerged as the most prominent global
environmental problem. Most of the countries including India are facing the
problems of rising temperature, melting of glaciers, rising of sea-level
leading to inundation of the coastal areas, changes in precipitation patterns
leading to increased risk of recurrent droughts and devastating floods, threats
to biodiversity, an expansion of pest and a number of potential challenges for
public health.
Realizing that the climate change is likely to have major impacts
on agriculture, the Government through Indian Council of Agricultural Research
(ICAR) has assessed the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture under
different scenarios using crop simulation models.
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has conducted
climate change impact analysis on crop yields through various centres in
different parts of the country using crop simulation models (INFO-CROP and HAD
CM3) for 2020, 2050
and 2080.
The results indicate variability in temperature and rainfall
pattern with significant impacts on crop yields. These studies projected
reduction in yields of irrigated rice by about 4% in 2020, 7% in 2050 and 10% in 2080.
The Government through Indian Council of Agricultural Research
(ICAR) has initiated a network project on ‘National Initiative on Climate
Resilient Agriculture’ (NICRA) to enhance resilience of Indian agriculture
through Strategic Research on adaptation and mitigation (covering crops,
livestock, fisheries and natural resource management), Technology
Demonstration, Capacity Building and Sponsored/Competitive Grant Projects.
Objectives:
• 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
• To demonstrate site specific technology packages on farmers’
fields for adapting to current climate risks
• To enhance the capacity building of scientists and other
stakeholders in climate resilient agricultural research and its application.
XII Five Year Plan objectives related to the project are:
• Strengthening the existing network research on adaptation and
mitigation (food crops, horticulture, livestock and fishery) with more
infrastructure and capacity building.
• Setting up of high through put phenotyping platforms and
temperature, CO2, ozone gradient facilities at identified
locations/ institutions including North East region.
• Strengthening research on
climate sensitive crops like cotton, maize, sugarcane, onion, etc. which
are critical for India’s farm GDP/exports but not covered in the XI Plan.
• Projected impacts on water availability at the river basin level
and participatory action research at large number of sites on evolving coping
strategies through water saving technologies.
• Evolving a national level pest and disease monitoring system to
assess the changing pest/disease dynamics under changed climate (both in crops
and livestock).
• Strengthening crop simulation and climate scenario down-scaling
modeling capabilities at major Institutes and a dedicated unit at IARI, New
Delhi.
• Piloting the operationalization of the district/block level
agromet advisory services through KVKs/district line departments and
contingency plans during droughts and floods.
• Expanding the technology demonstration and dissemination to 130 vulnerable districts of the country
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