Novel and Sustainable Approaches to Combat Climate Change in the Agriculture Sector: A Review

Author: Guntamukkala Sekhar, Jami Naveen, Sushmita Thokchom, Prem Kumar Bharteey, Rajnish Yadav, Sarvajeet and Rajesh Kumar

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Abstract

Climate change is posing a huge threat for agricultural production at local, national and global level. As a result there is a declined production in agriculture owing to various abiotic and biotic stresses. In this scenario there is a need to follow certain sustainable and innovative agricultural practices to confront several issues like declining food productivity and operational landholdings and also to ensure food security to the ever growing population by mitigating or adopting our agri-food systems to various stresses. The possible interventions viz. smart farming technologies, nitrogen fixing cereals, genetically modified crops, improvement in residue management, conservation agriculture, soil health improvement through cover crops, nanofertilizers for increased nutrient use efficiency, bioplastic mulches, urea briquette applicator in rice, silicon application in crops, speed breeding, laser land levelling are some of the sustainable cum innovative practices to improve the resilience in agriculture sector in the current climate change scenario.

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Climate change, resilience, productivity, technologies, agriculture

Conclusion

Climate wise agriculture is a set of agricultural techniques aiming at increasing agricultural output, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and mitigating the consequences of climatic extremes. Smart farming, on the other hand, stresses the use of information and communication technology for high-tech farming, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and digital technologies that aid in data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Exploring the possibilities of IT-enabled services and future technologies such as IoT and robotics, for example, would provide growers with real-time data on crop and soil health. Climate smart agriculture and smart farming were studied independently until recently, and digital tools, IoT, and robotics were not sufficiently explored to comprehend and remove the effects of climatic changes. One of the primary challenges is that the digital agriculture market and farmers' demands and expectations are vastly different. Smart agriculture has a lot of potential in agro-based economies like India, but it requires the integration of numerous new and existing technologies as well as crop protection techniques for long-term output. These technologies should be used with genetic engineering, such as CRISPR, to boost crop yields. CRISPR has the potential to change agriculture by allowing farmers to build cultivars and crop technologies based on genetically modified species to produce desired crop features for more resilient farming.

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Guntamukkala Sekhar, Jami Naveen, Sushmita Thokchom, Prem Kumar Bharteey, Rajnish Yadav, Sarvajeet and Rajesh Kumar (2022). Novel and Sustainable Approaches to Combat Climate Change in the Agriculture Sector: A Review. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 14(4): 203-210.