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Komal gupta

04/02/22 13:25 PM IST

Source: PIB

National Agriculture Disaster Management Scheme

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The Indian Council of Agricultural Research, the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare has launched a flagship network project called the National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) in line with the National Agriculture Disaster Management Scheme. 

Features of the scheme

  • The scheme will tackle the issues of sudden climate change that impact agriculture incurring huge losses for the farmers.
  • Under the scheme, the government will make an attempt to introduce climate-smart technologies involving farmers in risk assessment and adaptation techniques in several clusters covering many villages.
  • About 65 location-specific climate-resilient technologies have been developed.
  • So far, 8 climate-resilient varieties have been identified in rice, green gram, maize and lentil.

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