Mitigation Strategies to Reduce the Climate Change Impact in Agriculture

Abstract

Climate change and agriculture are closely interrelated and their effects on each other can be seen in the present-day agriculture. Global warming exerts a significant impact on agriculture because of rise in temperature, diminished precipitation, glacial melting, and uneven monsoon etc. Increment in the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) has both impeding and valuable effects on crop yields. Therefore, in agriculture, a proper evaluation of unfriendly impact of climate change is required. An increase in temperature, shortage in rainfall, the incidence of flood and longer dry spells especially in non-ordinary pockets are confirmations of climatic dangers. Thus, appropriate mitigation strategies to reduce GHGs emissions and adaptation of resource conservation technologies (RCTs) are required to make the agriculture sector more resilient to climate change.