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National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA)

Climate change is one of the major global challenges of the 21st Century, and is one of the key priorities of the discussion in the International for a since last few years. The adverse impacts of climate change are affecting all countries, especially developing countries, including persistent drought and extreme weather events, rising sea levels, coastal erosion and ocean acidification, further threatening food security, water, energy and health, and more broadly efforts to eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development. Combating climate change would require substantial and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions GHG, which, together with adaptation, can limit climate change risk. Indeed adaptation and mitigation actions are complementary for reducing and managing the risks of climate change. Considering that the climate change is a continued challenge, the focus on this critical area needs to be continued with greater emphasis. Keeping this view, one scheme had been strengthened and efforts were made to build on the initiative taken during XI Five Year Plan. To meet the challenges of sustaining domestic food production in the face of changing climate and to generate information on adoption and mitigation in agriculture to contribute to global fora like UNFCCC, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research launched a Flagship Network Project entitled ‘National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA)’ during XI Plan in February 2011, and during XII Plan, it was renamed as ‘National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA)’.

Objectives:

  • To enhance the resilience of Indian agriculture covering crops, livestock and fisheries to climatic variability and climate change through development and application of improved production and risk management technologies
  • To demonstrate site specific technology packages on farmers’ fields for adapting to current climate risks
  • To enhance the capacity building of scientists and other stakeholders in climate resilient agricultural research and its application
  • To draw policy guidelines for wider scale adoption of resilience-enhancing technologies and options

The overall expected outcome has been enhanced the resilience of agricultural production to climate variability in vulnerable regions. Initially, 100 KVKs all over India were selected for implementation of the project. In addition to that 21 more KVKs throughout the country have been included for carrying out the project as per approved XII Five Year Plan. The research on adaptation and mitigation covers crops, livestock, fisheries and natural resource management. The project is comprised of following four components.

  • Strategic research through network as well as Sponsored / Competitive Grants mode
  • Technology demonstration on farmers’ fields to cope up with current climate variability
  • Knowledge Management
  • Capacity building of different stakeholders

Technology Demonstration Component (TDC) is one of the most important components of this project through which demonstrations are conducted with site specific technology packages on farmers’ fields, encouraging the farmers to adopt new technologies to cope with the emerging threat of climate change as well as current climate vulnerability. Both short and long term output are expected from the project pertaining to new and improved varieties of crops, livestock breeds, management practices that help in the development of policy making to mainstream climate resilient agriculture in the path of developmental planning. Enhancing resilience is one of the important keys to achieve sustainability in agriculture especially in the background of climate vulnerability and climate change. The vulnerabilities of the respective KVK districts are mentioned as under.

 List of districts and KVKs with climate vulnerability 

Sl.

No.

State NARP Zone Districts Climate vulnerability
1. A&N Islands Coastal Zone Port Blair Cyclone
2. Odisha North-Eastern Ghat Ganjam 1 Drought
3. Odisha Western Central Table Bolangir Drought
4. Odisha Western Undulating zone Kalahandi Drought
5. Odisha East & South Eastern Coastal Plain Kendrapara Flood / Cyclone
6. Odisha North Central Plateau Keojhar Drought / Flood
7. Odisha East & South Eastern Coastal Plain Puri Heavy rainfall with irregular distribution, flood
8. Odisha East & South Eastern Coastal Plain Jagatsinghpur Flood/Cyclone
9. Odisha North Eastern Coastal Plain Bhadrak Flood, eratic distribution of rain, thunderstorm in summer
10. Odisha Mid Central Table Land Dhenkanal Erratic, unseasonal rainfall    with irregular distribution
11. West Bengal Terai Zone (WB-2) Coochbehar Heavy rainfall
12. West Bengal Old Alluvial Zone (WB-3) Malda Flood
13. West Bengal Coastal Saline Zone (WB-6) South 24 Parganas Cyclonic storm/heavy rainfall within short period
14. West Bengal Coastal Saline North 24 Parganas Cyclone and Flood prone with soil salinity during Rabi-Summer
15. West Bengal Red Lateritic Purulia Intermediate drought, Heat wave
16. West Bengal Old Alluvial Mursidabad II Drought
17. West Bengal Hill Kalimpong Cold and foggy

Salient achievements of the project:

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

2019-20

2020-21

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  • Awareness campaign to combat malnutrition organized at Rathindra KVK, Birbhum
  • Interactive Meeting for implementation of promotion of climate resilient model IFS in coastal Sundarbans organized at Ashokenagar KVK, North 24 Parganas
  • Fit India Movement-fitness week celebrated at ICAR-ATARI Kolkata
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  • Millet Mela organized at Howrah KVK for creating awareness
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  • Project Completion-cum-Convergence Workshop on Integrated Farming System under ATARI Kolkata organized
  • Workshop on Convergence Platform of CSISA organized
  • Annual Zonal Workshop 2023 of KVKs under ICAR-ATARI Kolkata organized at Kalimpong
  • ICAR-ATARI Kolkata organized NICRA Field visit at Paiyong Busty, Kalimpong, W.B.
  • Hon’ble Secretary DARE and DG, ICAR inaugurated Natural Farming Demonstration Unit at Kalyan KVK
  • ‘World Intellectual Property Day 2023’ celebrated at ICAR-ATARI Kolkata
  • Visit of Agriculture Commissioner, Govt. of India to ICAR-ATARI Kolkata
  • High level FPOs-FPCs-Farmers’ Meet Chaired by the Hon’ble Secretary, DARE & DG, ICAR
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  • Secretary, DARE & DG, ICAR visited KVK Coochbehar on the occasion of celebration of Golden Jubilee Year of KVKs and International Year of Millet 2023
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