The survey was also meant to gauge the impact of climate change in the State, particularly on water and agriculture. The NGO said the idea was to get as much raw information as possible, which is free from influence of media and experts. "We did not find even one response which does not refer to symptoms or effects of climate change," WIO convener Ranjan Panda said. Farmers, comprising 90 per cent of the respondents, say their last five years' production has been less than the peak production level because of the adverse impact of climate change, Panda said. The findings released on Monday clearly attribute this trend to decreasing land productivity and adverse climatic conditions like delay in monsoon or erratic rainfall. It marks the end of the first phase of our yearlong survey started on the harvest festival of Nuankhai (September 16), Panda said.

The survey findings come at a time when the 13th United Nations Climate Change Conference - attended by representatives from over 180 countries - is underway in Bali, Indonesia. This conference is significant as a global body of 700 scientists recently established that climate change is unequivocal, accelerating and beginning to affect vulnerable States, he said.