ABSTRACT
Agriculture is an economic activity that is highly dependent upon weather and climate in order to produce the food
Abstract 213 10.1 Introduction 214 10.2 Climate change impacting agriculture in India:
As per Dr. Swaminathan 215 10.3 Global scenario of climate change 217
Current scenario 217 Future projections 218
10.4 Indian scenario of climate change 218 Current scenario 218 Future projections 219
10.5 Climate variability and food production 223 10.6 Projected climate change scenarios over the
Indian subcontinent 224 10.7 Vulnerability of crop production 224 10.8 Uncertainties due to scenarios and crop models
on impact assessment 224 10.9 Mitigation and adaptation strategies 225 10.10 Predicted climate change impacts on agriculture 225
Wheat production 225 Rice production 226 Policy implications of climate change 226 Need for further research 226
10.11 Conclusion 227 References and Further Reading 228
and bre necessary to sustain human life. Not surprisingly, agriculture is deemed to be an economic activity that is expected to be vulnerable to climate variability and change. The vulnerability of agriculture to climate variability and change is an issue of major importance to the international scientic community … stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent serious anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Agriculture in developed countries may actually benet where technology is readily available, along with the employment of appropriate adaptive adjustments.
