Climate Change and Agriculture in India: Impact and Adaptation

Abstract

Due to increase in anthropogenic activities, global temperatures have shown a warming trend of 0.87°Cover the period 1880–2015. Annual surface air tempera tures over India also have shown increasing trends of similar magnitude during the period 1901–2016, making 2016 the warmest year in the period of instrumental data. Warmer temperature during the monsoon season (June-September, +0.72°C above average) and the post monsoon season (October-December, +1.1°C above average) mainly contributed to the warmer annual temperature. Climate change is now reality as evident from the significant increase in the CO2 concentration (408.84 ppm as on June 2017) which has caused most of the warming and has contributed the most to climate change. Two drought years in south central India created panic and for the first time in the history and special trains were put in place to provide drinking water.