India, Feb. 11 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:
Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is implementing a project, National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) that studies the impact of climate change on agriculture including crops, livestock, horticulture and fisheries. It also develops and promotes climate resilient technologies, which helps the regions prone to extreme weather conditions like droughts, floods, frost, heat waves, etc. The studies conducted under NICRA showed that in the absence of adaptation measures, climate change is likely to reduce yield of rainfed as well as irrigated rice, wheat, Kharif maize etc. Under NICRA, risk and vulnerability assessment of agriculture to ...