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Climate change worries ministry
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| The Asian Age , Friday, July 20, 2007 |
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| New Delhi, July 19: The parliamentary consultative committee of the ministry of agriculture has raised concern over the impact of climate change on agriculture. Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar said that irrespective of the outcome of the international negotiations on climate change, agriculture has to become more competitive, efficient and develop mechanisms to reduce its vulnerability. "Indian farmers, scientists and policy makers have to address issues in totality and develop strategies to increase our adaptive capacity. We have built capacity earlier also to climatic extremes such as drought by establishing buffer food stocks, strengthening irrigation infrastructure and developing agricultural insurance scheme," he said.
The minister stressed that more emphasis should be paid on anticipatory adaptation measures, especially "no regret" adaptation strategies that will allow attainment of sustainable development goals even if there is no climatic change. Increase in the capital investment in agriculture, which has been going down in the last few years
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