Vol. 7, Issue 5 (2019)
Agricultural conservation and climate change mitigation in India
Author(s): Narinder Panotra, SK Singh and Rohit Sharma
Abstract: Food security today is a major challenge globally due to looming threat of climate change on the potential of agriculture. The climate change, caused by greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere due to anthropogenic reasons, is going to impact entire life on earth. Climate change is going to impact agriculture in complex ways, affecting soil (changes in OM content, thermal regimes, hydrology and salinity etc.), water (melting/shrinking glaciers, flash floods, changing river flows, changing rainfall pattern, increased cloud-burst events etc.), crops (net decline in productivity of grains, pulses, oil-seed and other crops; decline in the impacts of cold waves and frost events on horticulture, vegetable and field crops; impacts on the nutritional quality of cereals, pulses, fruits, vegetables, tea, coffee, aromatic and medicinal plants etc.), livestock (heat stress is likely to impact forage quality, ingestion of fodder and feed, declines in physical activity, and ultimately decrease dairy milk yield and reproductive performance) and fisheries (likely impacts on fish breeding, migration and harvests etc.). Crop production is estimated to decline by 10-40% by 2100. In order to sustain agriculture in this scenario, the agriculture researchers must respond in terms of mitigation actions to slow down climate change, and adaptation to accommodate and adjust to unavoidable climate changes.
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Narinder Panotra, SK Singh, Rohit Sharma. Agricultural conservation and climate change mitigation in India. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(5):221-224.
