Lok Sabha Question No. 2237 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-03-15
Subject: Protection of Farmers against Climate Change
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Shyam Yadav Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2237

TO BE ANSWERED ON 15 th  MARCH, 2022

## PROTECTION OF FARMERS AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE

## 2237.     SHRI SHYAM SINGH YADAV

Will the Minister of AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE कृ ष और कसान कयाण मंी be pleased to state:

- a)  the  details  of  the  steps  taken  by  the  Government  to  protect  farmers  against  climate change;
- b)  the steps taken by the Government to promote climate friendly agriculture;
- c)  whether  the  Government  is  devising  any  mechanism  to  measure  effects  of  climate change on agriculture; and
- d)  if so, the details thereof;

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

कृ ष और कसान कयाण मंी (SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR).

(a & b) National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) is one of the Missions within the National  Action  Plan  on  Climate  Change  (NAPCC).  The  mission  aims  to  evolve  and implement  strategies  to  make  Indian  agriculture  more  resilient  to  the  changing  climate. NMSA was approved for three major components i.e. Rainfed Area Development (RAD); On Farm  Water  Management  (OFWM);  and  Soil  Health  Management  (SHM).  Subsequently, four  new  programmes  were  introduced  namely  Soil  Health  Card  (SHC),  Paramparagat Krishi  VikasYojana  (PKVY), Mission  Organic  Value  Chain  Development  in  North  Eastern Region (MOVCDNER) and Sub Mission on Agroforestry (SMAF). During 2015-16, Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY)  was  operationalised  wherein  the  OFWM

component  of  NMSA  was  subsumed  under  Per  Drop  More  Crop  (PDMC)  component  of PMKSY.  In  addition  to  aforementioned  programmes  under  NMSA,  Restructured  National Bamboo Mission (NBM) was launched in April 2018.

To  meet  the  challenges  of  sustaining  domestic  food  production  in  the  face  of changing climate, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers  Welfare,  Government  of  India  launched  a  flagship  network  project  'National Innovations  in Climate  Resilient Agriculture'  (NICRA)  in  2011.  The  project  is  being implemented  through  different  components  viz.,  strategic  research  on  adaptation  and mitigation, demonstration of technologies on farmers' fields in 151 clusters of villages one each from climatically vulnerable districts and creating awareness among farmers and other stakeholders  to  minimize  the  climatic  change  impacts  on  agriculture.  The  project  aims  to develop and promote climate resilient technologies that help the districts and regions prone to  extreme  weather  conditions  like  droughts,  floods,  frost,  heat  waves,  etc.,  to  cope  with such extremes.

(c  &  d)  The  impact  of  climate  change  on  crops  was  studied  by  ICAR  under  National Innovations  in  Climate  Resilient  Agriculture  (NICRA)  project  using  integrated  simulation modeling framework. In the absence of adoption of adaptation measures, climate change projections  are  likely  to  affect  yields  of  crops.  Besides  the  modeling  studies,  on  station experiments  by  different  research  institutes  and  KVKs  under  NICRA  network  across  the country are studying the impact of extreme weather events on different crops and adaptation measures to minimize the loss.

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