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Role of Climate Related Services Building Climate Smart Farmers
Indian Centre for Climate and Societal Impacts Research
(ICCSIR) Mandvi, Kachchh, Gujarat, India
Presented by: Shouvik Jha
Climate change & farmers
• Smallholder farmers - vulnerable to climate fluctuations and weather extremes
• Climate related services offer great potential to enable farmers to make informed decisions and better manage risk
Climate services – Indian scenario
• Agricultural Meteorology Division, India Meteorological Department(IMD)
• Working with objective of minimizing the impact of adverse weather on crops and to boost agricultural production.
• Publishing district Agro Advisories Bulletin (AAS) twice a week
Civil Society Organizations – A local perspective, Kachchh, arid region in India
• Indian Centre for Climate and Societal Impacts Research (ICCSIR)
• C C Shroff Research Institute (CCSRI)
• Vivekanand Research & Training Institute (VRTI)
• National Council for Climate Change & Sustainable Development (NCCSD)
ICCSIR – providing weather forecast
• Weather forecast for long term, seasonal, medium term and short term
• Forecast includes future trends about temperature, rainfall, humidity, etc.
• Weekly Weather Forecast on Each Tuesday
• Alerts for eventualities of heavy downpour / other weather catastrophe.
Crop advisories to farmers
• VRTI is providing advisories to farmers through SMS & electronic media, bulletin
• Crop advisories are also disseminated for long term, seasonal and short term
• Advisories to farmers with respect to agricultural operations in relation to delay in rainfall, extreme temperature and other weather parameters
Capacity building of farmers
• ‘Climate Resilient Practices’ which to be adopted by farmers: • Soil management
• Soil moisture conservation
• Crop selection strategies
• Contingency planning
• Management of livestock
• Bio technology
• Management of saline soil & water
Capacity building of farmers
• 4 CSOs jointly working for development of ‘Climate Resilient Practices’ which to be adopted by farmers through • Printed guide book
• Direct training programme
• Training of trainers (TOTs)
• Non formal education center for farmers
• Training programmes are conducted in all districts of Gujarat
Farmers – responding to climate services
• Region: Chhotaudepur and Jetpur Pavi, Gujarat, India • No. of Villages: 67 / No. of Farmers: 1950 • Season: Wet Season called Kharif (July - November),
2016-17 • Paddy major food crop of tribal communities.
• Based on forecasts of delayed rains, the farmers were advised to delay nurseries seeding by a week i.e. last week of May.
• As a fall off of this, transplantation was done after 10/07/2016.
• Had the nurseries been raised during second week of May, the transplanting could have not been done leading to a loss of about Rs. 1350/acre.
• Collective loss of around INR 5 million or $0.75 million for 1950 farmers was saved
Farmers – responding to climate services
• Region: Kachchh, Rukmavati River Basin • 110 new rain water harvesting structures, 112
renovation (desilting) of existing structures 4000 Ha of lands got irrigation security
• Efficient use of water through promotion of drip irrigation – 4500 Ha of land, 50% saving in irrigation water
• 41,000 trees planted in basin area to improve greenery
• Promoting horticultural plantation – 1,000 Ha land having permanent green cover
Programme Imapct: CO2 Sequestration in Rukmavati River Basin
Thank You
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