Implications of Climate Change for Indian Agricultural Productivity and its Adaptation

Impact of climate change on Indian agriculture will be one of the major deciding factors influencing the future nutrition food security and livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers. A significant rise in the surface temperature and the frequency of extremes climates such as droughts, floods, heat waves in the future is going to have negative impact. Understanding the pattern of weather changes over a period of time and modifying the management practices in relation to climate change are challenges to the growth of Indian agricultural sector as a whole in the future. Simple adaptation strategies, such as change in seeds planting dates and development of seeds varieties that could tolerant climate change and improved land-use policies and risk management through early warning system and crop-weather insurance.