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Climate Resilient Agriculture in India

Climate change has affected the lives and foods of the world. It has changed the agricultural pattern of farming and has also raised the question of food security. WHO report has revealed millions of hunger deaths and malnutrition across the globe in the past decade. This pattern of hunger deaths and malnourishment is only going to worsen in the times to come due to the onslaught of nature fury.   To face this challenge, developed countries have increased their research on climate resilient-smart agriculture which gives primacy to high yielding varieties of seeds and transgenic to fight future challenge of food security for their counties. India is no safer from the threat of climate change. Thus, it is imperative for us to shift towards climate resilient smart agriculture to support India’s future food security concerns. India adopted the BT Cotton technique in the last decade, which has benefited farmers at large. More recently, BT Brinjal is the new entrant into the BT Ind...