CSA Xpert

The indirect climate impacts include a change in the farming system, cropping pattern, growing seasons, cropping intensity, input use, tillage practice, increased competition from weeds, expansion of pathogens and insect pest ranges and seasons, delayed farming operations due to excess/deficit soil moisture, other management adjustments, and reduced grain yield. Overall, climate change could make it more difficult to do the crop and animal husbandry, fishery in the same ways as having been done in the past. The climate change impact on agriculture is manifested in the form of delayed onset of monsoon (2 weeks), decrease in the number of rainy days year^-1, prolonged dry spell, more number of heavy rainy days, increased risk of crop submergence, decrease in kharif growing period by 2 weeks, fluctuating winter temperature, early start of summer (February onwards), reproductive stage of rice and pulses coinciding with higher temperature,  increasing weather risk for timely operations, increased salinity in coastal areas, the emergence of newer pests (swarming caterpillar, sheath rot), more intense and prolonged heatwave, even in the coastal area. All these events have resulted in low input use efficiency, yield loss, and reduced quality of produce.