Climate smart farming: An innovative approach for safer and cleaner production system in Bihar

Abstract

Climate resilient agriculture (CRA) contributes to sustainable crop productivity that is tailored to local hydro-meteorological conditions, while effectively addressing climate change. Through exchange of water between surface and groundwater systems, CRA improves agricultural viability and offers resilience to climate variability. The CRA provides strategies to address present and future food security issues in water-stressed areas such as southern region of Bihar, where demand for water from domestic, industrial and agricultural uses is rising. Approximately one-third of world's soil is degraded. Intensive crop production in India has depleted soils to the point where future production in these regions is at risk. Building resilient crop production systems that can withstand the effects of climate change requires healthy soils. Their diverse community of organisms helps to recycle soil nutrients, control plant diseases, insect and weed populations, and improve soil structure, which in turn has a positive impact on water holding capacity, nutrient supply and
retention, and levels of organic carbon.