Climate Change Crisis: Why Fatuhi Khera In Punjab Changed From Cotton To Rice

In Fatuhi Khera, Punjab, crop losses following a deluge in 2009 prompted a switch from growing cotton to paddy in 75% of the acreage that was earlier under cotton. Since paddy withstands water logging better than cotton, farmers see its cultivation as a means to protect their income against losses emanating from excessive rainfall during the monsoon.

Climate Change Crisis: Why Fatuhi Khera In Punjab Changed From Cotton To Rice

14 Jul 2018

Harsimranjit Brar, 26, has an unforgettable childhood memory of his family’s fields in Fatuhi Khera, a village in Punjab’s Sri Muktsar Sahib...

Climate change may reduce rabi and kharif crop earnings by up to 13.7% and 5.5%; farmers left to their own resources to cope

14 Jul 2018

Harsimranjit Brar, 26, has an unforgettable childhood memory of his family’s fields in Fatuhi Khera, a village in Punjab’s Sri Muktsar Sahib...

Heap and pit composting trials in Mali. Photo: Z Birhanu

Awareness to adapt: Malian farmers prepare for climate change

26 Jun 2018

Farmers in Mali are now better equipped to fight the challenges of climate change, thanks to training sessions on climate-smart agricultural practices....

Climate-proofing Indian agriculture

29 May 2018

Climate change has perhaps posed the most extreme challenges that agriculture in India and across the world has to deal with today and in the future. There is now scientific consensus that the world is getting warmer due to climate change and such increasing weather variability and worsening extremes will impact the agriculture sector more and more adversely.