VEER KUNWAR SINGH COLLEGE OF

AGRICULTURE
(DUMRAON)
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GUIDED BY PRESENTED BY
Dr.Shantibhushan sir Sweety kumari
Dr.Vinod kumar singh sir A-VKSCOA_2340_2019-20
Dr.Prakash Singh sir
Shri sunil kumar sir
 INTRODUCTION
 CURRENT SCENARIO OF INDIA
 NEED FOR CLIMATE RESILIENT
AGRICULTURE(CRA)
 TECHNIQUES USED IN CRA
 CLIMATE RESILIENT CROP VARIETIES
RELEASED
 WHAT IS CLIMATE RESILIENT AGRICULTURE?
Climate resilience is a fundamental concept of climate risk management.In
this context,resilience refers to the ability of an agricultural system to
anticipate and prepare for,as well as adapt to ,absorb and recover from
the impacts of changes in climate and extreme weather

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 Climate resilient crops provide means of adapting diminishing crop yields in the
face of droughts,higher average temperatures and other climatic conditions
associated with climate change which mainly cover the abiotic stress factors but
not biotic stress factors.
Climate resilient crops were defined by Dhanker and Foyer (2018).
 CURRENT SCENARIO OF AGRICULTURE IN INDIA
 A report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said
that climate change will have economy-wide repercussions in India if
not mitigated, and could lead to shrinking of the agriculture cover in
the country.
 The IPCC report also said that the impact of climate crisis, like
changing monsoon patters, rising sea levels, deadlier heat waves,
intense storms and flooding will pose an acute risk to the agriculture
sector.
 According to ongoing studies by the Indian Council of Agricultural
Research (ICAR), farming now consumes up to 30% more water due to “high
evaporative demand and crop duration due to forced maturity” in states
such as Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and Rajasthan.
 The ICAR also said that climate change is predicted to reduce
agricultural yields by 4.5 to 9 per cent.
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NEED FOR CLIMATE RESILIENT
AGRICULTURE
 This practice reduces hunger and poverty in the face of climate change for forthcoming
generations .

 CRA practices can alter the current situation and sustain agricultural production from the local
to the global level,especially in a sustainable manner .

 Indian scientists are focussing on developing climate resilient crops, instead of just going for
higher yield varieties. "Varieties tolerant to diseases, insects pests, drought, salinity, and
flooding, early maturing and amenable to mechanical harvesting also developed.

 Participatory breeding and participatory varietal selection may have

helped fastrack the development of climate –resilient crop varieties and
cropping systems aimed at multiple breeding targets .
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 Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched 35 crop varieties which are

climate resilient in September 2021.

 The crop varieties have been developed by the Indian Council of

Agricultural Research (ICAR) to address the twin challenges of climate
change and malnutrition. They are climate resistant and have high
nutrition content, the PMO said in a release.

 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.
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RICE
• Pusa Basmati 1979- Herbicide
tolerant,suitable for direct seeding
• Pusa Basmati 1886 – Bacterial blight and
blast resistance
• DRR Dhan 58- Bacterial blight
resistant,salinity tolerant at seedling
stage
• DRR Dhan 60 – Resistant to bacterial
blight,low soil phosphorus tolerant
• Pusa Basmati 1985
• Pusa Basmati 1847
MAIZE
• Pusa HQPM-1 – High
provitamin,Lysine(4.59%),tryptopha
n Suitable for all zones
• Pusa Biofortified Maize Hybrid-1 –
Provitamin-A;Lysine(3.37%)
Suitable for North Hill and NE
plains
• Pusa HM4 Male Sterile Baby Corn –
First male sterile baby corn hybrid
;Manual detasseling not
required ;saves Rs.8000-10000/ha

• Pusa Basmati 1885

• DRR Dhan 59
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