Due to the increasing vulnerability of its agricultural sector to the impacts of climate change (extreme weather events, changing rainfall patterns, and temperature fluctuations). These factors can lead to reduced crop yields, food insecurity, and economic losses. There is a need to combine various approaches, researchers and farmers that can create crops that are better adapted to the challenges posed by climate change.

Dr Rafael Nanelo thank you for your contribution to the discussion

Climate Resilient Agriculture involves sustainable agricultural practices that enhance productivity, mitigate risks, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. By adopting climate-resilient agriculture, farmers can ensure food security in the face of extreme weather events and climate change. In many cases, conservation agriculture has shown to reduce farming systems' greenhouse gas emissions and enhance their role as carbon sinks. Conservation Agriculture can increase the ability of small farmers to adapt to climate change by reducing vulnerability to drought and enriching the local natural resource base. India's food security is at risk due to changes in rainfall patterns, which will affect crop productivity, and an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events like droughts and floods. Constructing ponds, check dams, and farm ponds to capture and store rainwater can help recharge groundwater and provide irrigation during dry spells. Farmers can utilize this stored water during droughts or for supplementary irrigation, thereby reducing dependence on erratic rainfall patterns. Agroforestry and integrated farming systems for increased resilience. Agroforestry can increase the resilience of farmlands and landscapes to climatic stress. It does this by integrating trees with crops and/or animals to provide a range of agricultural and forestry products. Striving for Climate Resilient Development means reducing exposure and vulnerability to climate hazards, cutting back greenhouse gas emissions and conserving biodiversity are given the highest priorities in everyday decision-making and policies on all aspects of society including energy, industry, health, water, food. The defining characteristic of climate-resilient infrastructure is that it is planned, designed, built and operated in a way that anticipates, prepares for, and adapts to changing climate conditions. It can also withstand, respond to, and recover rapidly from disruptions caused by these climate conditions. Technologies such as solar-powered photovoltaics, water pumps and vaccine chains can enhance resilience by ensuring independent water and energy supplies to remote rural facilities, and for continued use during emergencies. Also, encouraging the cultivation of non-traditional crops that are more resilient to climate extremes can reduce dependence on a single crop and mitigate risks. As, promoting drought-tolerant millets can help farmers cope with changing climatic conditions.

More than 80% of the total agricultural land area are rainfed, and unpredictable climatic condition has threatened agricultural productivity. Climate resilient verities can enable the farming system to sustain agricultural productivity and maintain the required growth rate to feed the ballooning population.

Developing the climate-resilient verities is possible if we have a targeted site to screen the Germplasm for these climates

Dr Bijendra Pal thank you for your contribution to the discussion

Rk Naresh Sir,

India needs climate resilient agriculture systems due to the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events caused by climate change. To develop climate-resilient crops, farmers should use drought-resistant and flood-tolerant varieties of seeds, practice crop rotation, employ conservation tillage, and integrate crop and livestock management. Additionally, farmers should use organic and sustainable farming practices to reduce their reliance on chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

Dear Harshit Mishra thank you for your contribution to the discussion

Climate Resilient Agriculture involves sustainable agricultural practices that enhance productivity, mitigate risks, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. By adopting climate-resilient agriculture, farmers can ensure food security in the face of extreme weather events and climate change. Striving for Climate Resilient Development means reducing exposure and vulnerability to climate hazards, cutting back greenhouse gas emissions and conserving biodiversity are given the highest priorities in everyday decision-making and policies on all aspects of society including energy, industry, health, water, food. Climate Resilient Agriculture involves sustainable agricultural practices that enhance productivity, mitigate risks, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. By adopting climate-resilient agriculture, farmers can ensure food security in the face of extreme weather events and climate change. In many cases, conservation agriculture has shown to reduce farming systems' greenhouse gas emissions and enhance their role as carbon sinks. Conservation Agriculture can increase the ability of small farmers to adapt to climate change by reducing vulnerability to drought and enriching the local natural resource base. Adaptation also includes exploiting any beneficial opportunities presented by changing climates. Climate-resilient crops are crops and crop varieties that have enhanced tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses. The 35 varieties of climate resilient crop include a drought tolerant variety of chickpea, wilt and sterility mosaic resistant pigeonpea, early maturing variety of soybean, disease resistant varieties of rice and biofortified varieties of wheat, pearl millet, maize and chickpea. By restoring and safeguarding ecosystems on land and in the ocean, we help plants and animals to build climate resilience. Nature, in turn, can help us regulate the climate, give us clean, safe water, control pests and diseases and pollinate our crops.

Hi Sir,

GOOD DAY

Climate resilient agriculture systems are a must to have one for India, as our climatic conditions are unpredictable and gives surprises to the plans made prior. In a telescopic view, we are yet to encounter more surprises for which we need the system of agriculture to be challenging in the same way for which climate resilient agricultural systems will be a boon.

As developing new traits or improving the existing traits are possible currently using genetic and molecular ways, it would be a great support to maintain a sustainable agricultural platform. Thus this method of cultivation helps to erase the botheration for the nation that helps human population from generation to generation.

Dr Deepthi Thayumanavan thank you for your contribution to the discussion

By promoting and implementing climate resilient agricultural practices, India can build more resilient and sustainable agricultural systems that can help to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change, and to enhance the livelihoods and food security of millions of farmers and rural communities. High temperatures may reduce crop duration, permit changes in photosynthesis, escalate crop respiration rates and influence pest population. Climate change accelerates nutrient mineralization, hampers fertilizer use efficiency (FUE) and hastens the evapotranspiration in soil. They are intended to maintain or increase crop yields under stress conditions and thereby provide a means of adapting to diminishing crop yields in the face of droughts, higher average temperatures and other climatic conditions. Climate-resilient agriculture practices look at adaptive agricultural methods that can withstand the shocks of climate change and weather extremes. These practices must be flexible enough to prepare and tackle long-term climate change as well as short-term weather shocks such as storms, hail, droughts, etc. Striving for Climate Resilient Development means reducing exposure and vulnerability to climate hazards, cutting back greenhouse gas emissions and conserving biodiversity are given the highest priorities in everyday decision-making and policies on all aspects of society including energy, industry, health, water, food. Farmers may increase their businesses' climate resilience by diversifying their crops and livestock, by planting trees and bushes on the fields for shade and organic manure by increasing soil health (more soil organic matter), and by combining crops, livestock and natural elements.