Climate India Resilient Seeds
Unexpected rains and rising heat is not making life more difficult for the people of Ryanpet, a village in the dry south of India. They are also taking a toll on thousands of acres of rice grown here.
“We knew when it would rain and how long and we sowed our seeds accordingly,” p. Ravinder Reddy said, an ex -serviceman, who had changed to cultivate his family’s land 16 years ago. “Now it is very unexpected and sometimes. The seeds do not sprout either because it receives too much rain or it is completely dry.”
Fortunately for Reddy, the agricultural research organizations in India have been working for the years of engineer rice seeds that can bear the climate vagina better. He has been experimenting with new varieties for the last five years, and that they are giving better yields with less water and are more immily resistant.
Reddy said, “I have put them in a quarter of my 25-acade ground because there is still a demand for old varieties, but I think in a few years, we will only use these hard seeds.”
India is the world’s largest producers and one of the consumers of wheat and rice. Research organizations here, like their counterparts around the world, have worked to produce seeds for a long time that increase yields, face drought or oppose plants. This is a growing need because a changing climate leads to a more extreme and unexpected weather.
According to a United Nations report released earlier this year, over 700 million people were hungry last year and more than one -third of the global population is unable to spend a healthy diet, thus urgency for flexible seeds It has increased which can cause food to produce firmly. Apart from India, other programs, including the United States government programs and privately funded projects, are helping to develop climate-flexible crops in Africa, Central America and other Asian countries.
Since India is among the most unsafe countries for climatic effects, these new seeds are necessary to ensure that it produces enough food to export with its people.
Defense against climate tremors
As climate change intensifies, about 120 million farmers in India – with less than 5 acres of land – are seeing their livelihood at an irregular rainfall patterns, rising temperatures and increased pest infections.
Some are called natural farming – techniques such as using natural fertilizers and planting crops with trees and other plants that can protect crops from air, erosion and some extreme weather – to deal with climate change. But this may mean that the yield may be reduced, and the federal government of India is also promoting the use of climate-flexible seeds that do not compromise on yields.
Experts say increase rice seeds can affect rice seeds in low time, heavy rains in short time, long -term drought and even night temperature.
Ashok Kumar Singh, a former director and a scientist of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, who specializes in the genetics and breeding of the plant, said, “We really need these seeds to deal with these many issues, which, which is in New Delhi in New Delhi The Indian Agricultural Research Institute is a scientist and a scientist who specializes in the genetics and reproduction of the plant. Has released more than 2,000 climate-flexible seed varieties in the last decade, with funds from the Ministry of Federal Agriculture.
Earlier this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi released 109 climate-flexible seeds in crops, including groundnuts such as grains, pulses and oilseeds. The federal government of India has announced a plan to ensure at least 25% of the land for paddy in the country, which will be sown with climate-flexible seeds in the upcoming “kharif” or winter crop.
“We are breeding for many stresses, including heat and disease resistance,” said Janila Pasupulat of the International Crop Research Institute for semi-dry tropical tropics located in Hyderabad. Pasupulati said that this approach not only stabilizes yields, but also increases the nutritional quality of crops, which benefits both farmers and consumers.
Logical issues
Even scientists are making climate-flexible seeds regularly, ensuring that seeds reach the maximum number of farmers, it is important.
To ensure that farmers know about such seeds, they can tolerate them, and they are trained to use properly, it is important as making seeds, climate change adaptation in consultative group on international agricultural research And Director Aditi Mukherjee said for mitigation and a writer and a writer several United Nations Climate Report.
Mukherjee said that India’s Green Revolution in agriculture, which took place in the 1960s, was modernized to ensure food security and to increase the yield of food grains like wheat and rice across the country, because such Services were available and good level by the state
Agricultural scientists said that agricultural scientists also say that more money is required for research and development – at least 1% of agricultural gross domestic product, Singh said. In Ryanpet Village, Reddy is preparing to sow rice seeds for a winter season in a few weeks, and says he expects to expand the area that receives climate-flexible seeds. “It is good to keep trying new seeds because after some time they all will have some issue or others. If the government can also ensure that we get good prices for our crops after the crop, then it will help the farmers a lot like us, ”he said.
