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Impact of Climate Change on Sustainable Food Grains
Production in Uttar Pradesh
Priyanka Arya*
,Javed Akhtar**
* PhD Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Allahabad.
** Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Allahabad.
ABSTRACT
The contribution of Indian agriculture is 17.4% to the country’s gross value added and
approximately 55% of India’s population depends on agriculture employment (census 2011).
Government of India took several actions for agriculture sustainability development programs,
but due to effect of climate changes and natural disaster, the government could not meet the set
targets. Due to deficient rainfall as well as non seasonal rains in past years (2014-1015), there
was lower production of wheat (Approx. 860 Lakhs tonnes ) , rice ( Approx. 1000 Lakhs tonnes),
pulses ( 170 lakhs tonnes) in comparison to year 2013-2014, which was highest production year
i.e. wheat ( more than 920 lakhs tonnes ) , rice ( more than 1100 lakhs tonnes), pulse (190 lakhs
tonnes). In year 2014-2015 there was overall less food grains production in comparison to year
(2013-2014). The comparison between 2013-14 & 2014-15 is indicating that environmental and
climate support can play an important role for better agriculture management and production.
India can be self sufficient country in supply of food grains as per demand, if conditions are
favourable.
Atmosphere of India is extensively portrayed as tropical storm type. The National Adaptation
Fund for Climate change (NAFCC) has worked since 2015-16 which is intended to help national
and state level exercises to meet the expense of adaption measures in those regions which are
especially powerless against the unfavorable impact of atmosphere changes. Service of
Agriculture and Ministry of Environment both have a few environmental change activity
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projects, for example, long haul biological observatories (LTO) programs and so forth and are
endeavoring to improve the condition superior to prior.
Uttar Pradesh is main agriculture zone of food grain’s production in India and it is largest states
with maximum contribution toward national production (35.03%) for large area (35.12%) but
with productivity on a lower side of 2.7 tonnes / Ha. The wheat production is distributed in three
agro climatic zones , viz. Western Uttar Pradesh (3.29 million ha.) , Easter Uttar Pradesh (5.24
million ha.) and central Uttar Pradesh (0.68 million ha.).
In this research paper researcher tries to show the effect of climate changes on food grains
production in U.P. and also give suggestion to improve the condition of environmental effect and
sustainability of Indian Agriculture. In this research paper secondary data will be used for further
analysis and discussion.
Key words: Sustainable agriculture, Climate Change, Agriculture Production, Food- grains.
INTRODUCTION
India is a substantial creating nation with about 700 million country populace specifically relied
upon atmosphere touchy divisions (farming, woods and fisheries) and regular assets, (for
example, water, biodiversity, mangroves, waterfront zones, fields) for their subsistence and
occupations. Further, the versatile limit of dry land ranchers, timberland tenants, fisher people
traveling shepherds is low. Environmental change is probably going to affect all the
characteristic biological communities just as financial frameworks according to the National
Communications Report of India to the UNFCCC. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, in its 2007 report, predicts that worldwide temperatures will ascend by 2-4.50 C before
this current century's over, with a 2.7-4.30C increment over India by the 2080s. The board
additionally anticipated an expansion in precipitation over the Indian sub-mainland by 6-8
percent and that the ocean level would ascend by 88 centimeters by 2100.
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India is a farming ward country agribusiness still keeps on being the foundation of Indian
economy. In India horticulture is the convention which is joined in our monetary and social life.
Farming is as yet the base of work of around two-third populace of our nation. There is land and
atmosphere decent variety in India that is the reason it has been separated in 15 agribusiness
atmosphere zones and the horticulture is subject to unusual rainstorm. The agribusiness and
rancher network has been minimized because of the administration approaches on one hand and
the environmental change has intensified the effectively delicate circumstance on the other.
Today the entire world is worried about the overall circumstance made by environmental change
and confronting it in at various dimensions. All fear the circumstance of denudation of swamp to
and liquefying of ice sheets of the ice. Creating nations are increasingly dreadful. As indicated
by Dr R.K. Pachauri, there is probability that nourishment generation of numerous nations
including India would be seriously influenced by the environmental change, especially wheat,
paddy and different yields would be specifically influenced and these are the essential sustenance
of basic Indian individuals. We can just gauge how the environmental change would affect upon
the job of lion's share of individuals.
According to the recently issued status report of India and disaster management, around 85
percent region of India is under disaster prone zone, 40 million hectare of land is under drought
situation, 4 percent is under violent storm and 68 percent of land is under drought. Not only that
the graph of natural calamity has gone up during the last 100 years which has affected human
and physical resources. According to the report of World Bank there was loss of 2.25 percent
GDP between the period from 1996 to 2000 and the government has to bear the loss of 12.5
percent.
We have no clear cut estimate of the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture but looking
at the third report of IPCC it can be said that few crops, which grow in tropical region, have
