Department of Economics, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, (India)
Online published on 15 March, 2016.
The very important environmental problems before the World as a whole and India in particular is climate change, which is very closely associated with the global warming. They are very important on the ground that they have number of evil consequences on more or less all the spheres of the environment. It is not only India, but all the countries have been facing from the evil impacts of the climate change. It is adversely affecting the segments of the environments such as atmosphere, land, water and living things. Besides this the climate change is also adversely affecting the productive activities and sectors in the economies of the number of countries in the world as whole. It is therefore climate change has become at this moment a very importantly environmental problem of the globe as whole. And in the era of globalization and liberalization all countries of world are very closely interlinked and inter connected with the each other and India cannot be an exception to it. Hence India also has been severely affecting from the evil consequences of the climate change. It is a well known fact that at this moment also India is an agricultural country with over dependence of the people on agriculture as a means of lively hood, a major source of employment and a major population living in rural areas, whose prime economic activity is agriculture. This demands to discuss the interconnections and linkages between climate change and agriculture in the context of India. The prime objective of the present paper is identifying the things of serious concerns of climate change for the Indian agriculture. The study is exclusively relied on the secondary data concerning agriculture as well as climate change for the latest period prominently. The study concludes that the climate change has created severe adverse impacts on agriculture and thereby things of serious concerns, which are necessary to be tackled with the joint efforts of the government policy and active participation of the people and the society as a whole.
Climate Change, Global Warming, Green House Gases, Agricultural Development, Area, Production, Yield, Impact, Things of Concerns, Impact