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Climate change is due to natural and manmade causes. Deforestation is main cause of climate change due to human activities. On the other hand earthquakes and volcanic eruption are natural causes of climate change. It is not important to trace the causes of climate change rather to consider its impact on human being and his source of livelihood i.e. agriculture. Agriculture is the backbone of Indian rural population. Therefore, Mahatma Gandhi has said very rightly that the “Future of India lies in its villages” further he argued that “If the villages perish, India will perish too”. In other words sound development of the country may be possible after development of villages. It is true that the urbanization is responsible to provide assured jobs. Since, the rural population is migrating towards cities, urbanization is increasing and rural population is gradually on decline. Even though up to seventy percent population i.e.743 million people, as per census 2011 living in villages. But it is to be noted that agriculture gives employment to half of the county’s population despite of declining share of agriculture and GDP. Therefore, agriculture development for increasing farm production is always given priority to eradicate poverty. Since, use of pesticides and chemicals is the need of time. But it is affecting very badly the climate. Since, Indian agriculture is always at the mercy of the climate, it is bound to be affected by the increased manure and pesticides used. The government has assured to double the farmers income by 2022. The climate change has very adverse impact on Agriculture. This research paper is an endeavor to explain and illustrate this fact with necessary illustrations and justification. It is also criticized that the public investment in agriculture is very negligible. The supply chains and processing facilities are not properly developed. Hence, input prices are growing steadily while market links are highly inadequate. Moreover, the growth of population is continually reducing the size of ownership and operational land holding. Similarly the factors like shrinking of community resources, overuse of fertilizer, insecticides, and underground water in some regions of the country has resulted in intoxication of soil and other environmental problems which has serious implications not only to agricultural production but also on health of people. Thus, climate may have adverse impacts on agriculture and economy of country.