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Climate change in Uttarakhand will increasingly force people to abandon farming at high altitudes and move to the plains over the next 30 years. A new study on the state in the middle of the Himalayan range by the Germany-based Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi has forecast the worst impacts will be in higher elevations. This may accelerate the trend of people migrating and leaving land fallow.

Uttarakhand, which covers an area bigger than Costa Rica, maybe 1.6 degrees Celsius-1.9 degrees Celsius warmer by 2050. Its residents are already experiencing the impacts of climate change, such as changing temperatures, upward-moving snowlines, receding glaciers, erratic rainfall, reduction ...

Telengana Today – Online

Eliminating hunger is one of the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, but with 690 million people still going hungry, our agricultural heritage has plenty to teach us about how to feed our growing population without destroying the planet. That’s the principle behind the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) programme which highlights ways of farming which have proven resilient in the face of political and climate change to deliver food security.

The Economic Times – Online

Will this health crisis in rural India have an effect on the country’s farm production? What will be the impact on the export of agricultural and allied products, a segment that grew 24% in 2020-21 over the previous year, mainly on account of good monsoon and a surge in global commodity prices? The farm export growth was impressive against the backdrop of a drop of over 27% in leather exports, 10% in textiles and 7% in machinery, just to name a few, during the pandemic-hit fiscal.

ET spoke to government officials, farm experts, weather forecasters and exporters to piece together this story. When the dots are connected, early indications suggest, India will see yet ...

Hindustan Times – Online

As cotton sowing is in full swing in Punjab, questions have been raised on the state agriculture department’s previous claim that in 2020 more than one lakh hectare area was diversified into cotton from water-guzzling paddy. Sources admit that the official claim that last year’s area under cotton was enhanced from 3.9 lakh hectares in 2019 to 5.01 lakh hectares across the semi-arid region of southern Punjab does not hold water. Officials said it is surprising that no clarification has been issued by the agriculture department, the portfolio held by chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on an overstretched claim of record cultivation of cotton last year.