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Impact Of Climate On Agriculture
Varsha Devi
Ugc Net .
ABSTRACT
Due to increase in the average temperature every year as a result of global
warming is causing immense change in the climate as well.Due to change
in the climate, the favorable conditions for the agricultural activities are
decreasing rapidly.The occurrence of the natural disasters such as
drought, flood and heavy rainfall has increased since last few years due
to sudden change in the climate.
Also, in some parts of the country, the level of ground water is decreasing
due to drought like situations as a result of lack of raining. The most areas
of Western and South India are facing the problem of drought due to
climate change and in these regions;it is very difficult to do any
agricultural activity. The current paper highlights the impact of climate on
the agriculture.
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KEYWORDS:
Agriculture, Climate, Raining, Farmer
INTRODUCTION
Due to this change in the atmospheric conditions, heavy rainfall is
observed every year in North India and in some regions, floods are
occurred causing the destruction of a number of crops of the farmers.
Natural disasters have certainly demotivated the farmers as every year;
most parts of their crops are damaged due to these disasters.
Also, the trend of unseasoned raining has increased in last few years as
it is observed that most of the heavy rainfalls are observed at the time of
cultivation of the crops and hence, huge portion of the crops of the
farmers have destroyed. For all these kinds of situations, the change in
the climate is responsible.
If it is analyzed practically then it can be concluded that we the people
are responsible for this change in climate. The task of the deforestation is
going on large scale where a number of trees are cutting down resulting
into the change in the climate due to the fact that these trees play an
important role in balancing the human environment.
Trees also absorbthe rain waterand help in preventing the flood like
situation. Cutting down a number of trees is causing the flood to come
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into the agricultural areas and hence, crops are destroying every year.
Also, it is observed that the places where there is less number of trees;
have the chances to be suffered from the drought like situations. Hence,
the changing behavior of the climate can be controlled by planting a
number of trees.
Also, air pollution is the big factor for the changing behavior of the
climate. Due to this air pollution, the depletion in the ozone layer is
observed and as a result of this depletion; some of the ultra violet rays
emitting from the sun are directly coming to the surface of the earth.
This is causing global warming on the earth. Global warming is directly
responsible for this sudden change in the human climate as an increase
in the temperature is observed as an effect of this global warming.
Due to the changing behavior of the climate, the fertility of the soil is
decreasing in some of the areas of the country as the level of ground
water tends to lower down.
