Climate change and transition in cropping patterns: District level evidence from West Bengal, India

Paria, Bidur; Mishra, Pulak; Behera, Banarji

doi:10.1016/j.envc.2022.100499

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“…Considering the national goal of achieving sustainable and equitable development, the SDGs were used as the basis for selecting the indicators. Accordingly, the relevant indicators were populated from a detailed review of research articles [21][22][23].…”

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Aligning Agricultural Research and Extension for Sustainable Development Goals in India: A Case of Farmer FIRST Programme

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Agricultural development and farmers’ welfare occupy a central place in the development goals of India. Various pathways which have evolved over the years have been implemented in the country to propel agricultural growth by shifting its focus from achieving food sufficiency to sustainable income and inclusive growth. The Farmer FIRST Programme (FFP), an innovative frontline extension program of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), was launched in 2016 to enhance the reach and effectiveness of agricultural research with a multi-stakeholder approach. This paper evaluates the outcomes of the FFP implemented in ICAR institutions for the upscaling of those promising technologies, which have resulted in a significant impact on the farming community. The criteria chosen for assessing the outcomes are farm income, cropping intensity, use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and organic manure, and nutritional security. The data were collected from 50 FFP-implementing institutions for the period 2016–2021 and grouped into six different zones. The results revealed that there is a significant increase in income, cropping intensity, nutritional security, and saving pesticides through this program. The nutritional security, measured using cereal equivalent quantity (CEQ), showed a considerable increase in average consumption in all the zones. Overall, FFP interventions have resulted in achieving significantly higher income and the nutritional security of the farmholds compared to the control. The recorded results are favorable for scaling up and institutionalizing the FFP approach at the national level. The study recommends a participatory mode of an interdisciplinary approach for the effective scaling-up of the FFP across the agricultural research and development landscape of India.

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“…The impact of climate change on the yields of major crops across India shows that there is a significant rise in the monthly temperature mean specifically in post-rainy season and the minimum temperature increase is beneficial for crop yield but not as much as to cover the adverse effects of the increase in maximum temperature (Birthal et al, 2014). More recently a study that included the effect of infrastructural factors and techniques of production along with climate change, found that further development of infrastructure in this sector needs to be opted as fertilizer use (Pani et al, 2021), road connectivity and market along with storage facilities was found the major drivers of agrarian transition (Paria et al, 2022). Another study, which included the study of location and the management of crops along with climate change to protect the climate scenario and impact on major crops (Ferdushi et al, 2023), found out that irrigated rice and potato in the northeastern region, rice in the eastern coastal region and coconut projection in the western ghats will have a favorable effect.…”

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Climate change and cropping pattern in Keonjhar District of Odisha, India

Parida,

Jena,

Pani

et al. 2023

Multidiscip. Sci. J.

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Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges facing humanity and the natural environment in the 21st century. The agriculture sector is particularly vulnerable to climate change, as it depends on the availability and quality of natural resources, such as land, water, and soil. Climate change can affect the cropping pattern in various ways, such as altering the length and timing of the growing season, changing the water availability and quality, increasing the frequency and intensity of pests and diseases, and creating new opportunities and challenges for crop diversification. The agriculture sector in the Keonjhar district of India has been experiencing changes in its cropping pattern. This study investigates the key drivers for changing cropping patterns in the district. Secondary data was collected from 2011 to 2019 on the areas under crops and production of agricultural and horticultural crops grown in Keonjhar. For primary data, the interview method has been adopted with a sample of 327 marginal and small farmers from two villages in the district. The study revealed positive changes in the area allocated for paddy and mango, but negative changes in the area allocated for maize, mung (Yellow Lentil), biri (White Lentil). Climate change, market status, land ownership, education, the decline in yield, and the production of crops were the main drivers of the changes in crop patterns during the past few decades. This research proposes agricultural intensification and policy direction to promote the cultivation of paddy, maize, and mango trees to sustain livelihoods in the Keonjhar district.

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“…The structural changes in nation's economy have impetus effect on growth and development of individual state's economy [5,6]. The present study focuses on the structural changes of Andhra Pradesh state economy with special reference to primary sector (agriculture and allied).…”

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Structural Changes in Irrigation Vis-à-vis Cropping Pattern in Andhra Pradesh, India: An Economic Analysis

Madhurima

Karunakaran

Kumar

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The inherent dynamism within a system leads to structural changes of that system. Over the past, the structural changes that are occurring in the world economies are affecting the subsystems one or another way. The development of a nation like India reflects from the development of its states. The current study focuses on the structural shifts within primary sector of Andhra Pradesh (includes Telangana State’s data) more precisely, economic linkages between irrigation and between the dynamic changes in cropping pattern. It also explores the implications of dynamic changes happened in state’s agriculture after green revolution. The shifts from period 1970 – 2020 are studied using secondary data. Growth rate and conventional analyses (percentages and averages) are used to study the effects of shifts in irrigation on cropping pattern of the state. The results exhibit, declining ecofriendly surface water irrigation systems (tanks) by twofold compensated with increased extraction of groundwater resources by fivefold. As a consequence, decline in net cropped area and cropping pattern shifts adopting mono-cropping or double cropping under rice as major crop followed by cash crops or pulse crops under groundwater and canal systems of irrigation aroused. While coarse cereals have lost prominence, cash crops like chilly (93 per cent) have gained importance under irrigation. The prominence of livestock sector in the state can be realized as net irrigated area under fodder crops improved to 50.61 per cent over the decades. Overall improvement in net irrigated area with canal and groundwater systems of irrigation is current scenario of the state. Pressurized irrigation technologies should be promoted to maintain sustainability of tank irrigation structures. Cropping patterns including coarse cereals should be adopted for maintaining nutritional security. Adoption of reclamation measures to attain ecological balance between groundwater and surface water irrigation sources.

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Climate change and transition in cropping patterns: District level evidence from West Bengal, India

Cited by 10 publications

References 29 publications

Aligning Agricultural Research and Extension for Sustainable Development Goals in India: A Case of Farmer FIRST Programme

Aligning Agricultural Research and Extension for Sustainable Development Goals in India: A Case of Farmer FIRST Programme

Climate change and cropping pattern in Keonjhar District of Odisha, India

Structural Changes in Irrigation Vis-à-vis Cropping Pattern in Andhra Pradesh, India: An Economic Analysis

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