Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture in Chhattisgarh

Abstract

Climate change will have wide-ranging effects on the ecology, biodiversity and environment, and on socio-economic and related sectors like water resources, agriculture and food security, human health. India has undergone a series of ups and downs in agricultural production with the climatic conditions playing havoc in the years of abnormality. Currently, agro ecosystems are facing the problems of overexploitation of natural resources, decline in soil fertility, ground water level and agricultural productivity. One of the potential threats to agriculture is the impact of climate change in attaining sustainable development of agriculture coupled with food security. Climate change phenomenon is now a global reality. Chhattisgarh too faces the threat of climate change and its impacts. Available facts show that there is high chance of increase in the incidence and intensity of climate related natural hazards due to climate change and hence increase in probable threat due to climate change related natural disasters. In the (relative) absence of state level climate models and/or susceptibility studies, as well low community awareness, Chhattisgarh is potentially highly sensitive and exposed to climate change and its impacts. Agricultural productivity is nearly half the national average, mostly rain-fed and irrigation covers just 31 percent of the sown area. . In our paper we have tried to analyze the effects of climate change on Agriculture in Chhattisgarh