India, March 24 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
The Government, through Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), is implementing a project-National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA), which studies the impact of climate change on agriculture to promote future-ready farming technologies and rising food grain demand. Under the project, risk and vulnerability assessment of agriculture to climate change has been carried out at district-level for 651 predominantly agricultural districts as per Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) protocols. 310 districts were identified as vulnerable out of which 109 districts have been categorized as 'very high' and 201 districts as 'highly' vulnerable. Dis...