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Sep 19, 2008

Workshop On Climate Change Impact

India is very much vulnerable to climate change and as much as 40 per cent of cereal production could be lost in the coming years, P.K. Aggarwal, National Co-ordinator, Climate Change Network Project, New Delhi, said here on Thursday. Speaking at a workshop on ‘Quantifying the Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Production’ at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, he said the impact of climate change was evident in agriculture, fisheries and livestock.


“Climate change is a continuous event and is not discreet. The damage has already started and immediate action is required to reduce further impact.” The importance of climate change was being felt in that the Parliament and Government of India were starting to take serious note of this, he said. Discussing some of the strategies that could be adopted to reduce the impact, Mr. Aggarwal said it was essential to help farmers manage the current climate risk. Increasing grain production by reducing the yield gap, improving land and water management, with focus on resource conservation technology, developing enabling policies and increasing regional collaboration for mitigation of the impact of climate change were some of the strategies he suggested.


Vice-Chancellor C. Ramasamy called for urgent action on energy efficiency, conservation, diversification and adaptation, besides combating climate change. “Dealing with climate change is difficult because its dimensions are cross-sectoral. Climate change and global warming have added a new dimension to the already unnerving market uncertainty. Though admittedly a slow phenomenon, climate change can devastate agriculture,” the Vice-Chancellor said.

Speaking about the joint research collaboration of the university on mitigating the negative impacts of global warming on Indian agriculture, Mr. Ramasamy said the project would identify and implement adaptation strategies to sustain rice production under changing climatic conditions. “It will also create awareness among stakeholders and enable capacity building for integrating climate change considerations into the national agricultural development policies,” the Vice-Chancellor said.

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