JAMMU, April 29 -- Minister for Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs, Transport, Youth Services & Sports, Information Technology, and Science & Technology, Satish Sharma, today called for urgent, innovation-driven measures to build climate-resilient agroecosystems in Jammu and Kashmir.

Addressing the national conference on Sustainable and Climate Resilient Agroecosystems at SKUAST-Jammu, the Minister said the region's unique Himalayan ecology and agrarian economy place it at the frontline of climate change. He said that erratic weather patterns, shifting cultivation cycles and extreme climate events are already impacting the farmers, horticulturists and pastoral communities.

"Jammu and Kashmir is a living laboratory of climate change...