Climate-smart village

  • Enhancing the resilience of small and marginal farmers is essential through research and extension efforts bringing convergence of village-level institutions, extension functionaries under one umbrella for making a climate-smart village (CSV) that has capacity to adapt to climate change.
  • The activities under CSV includes the village level vulnerability assessment, resource characterization, and baseline assessment, prioritization, and demonstration of climate-smart agricultural technologies, the establishment of village knowledge centres focusing on the farmer to farmer knowledge exchange, the formation of self-help groups, awareness training, and field-level demonstrations of CSA technologies, use of traditional knowledge, creating alternate income generating avenues for marginal and landless farmers, value chain analysis and development.