Climate Change and its Implication in Agriculture

Climate change is the global issue at present. Assessing the local impact of climate change is essential to plan coping strategy. The study prioritized the potential impacts, climatic hazards and identifies the effective adaptation strategy through participatory approach with the local communities.Binary logit regression model was used to study the factor affecting to practiced different adaptation strategies.Trend Analysis of the climatic data of Rampur station for last 42 years (1968-2009) for rainfall, and last 30 years (1980-2009) for temperature, showed the increasing trend of annual rainfall by 6.83 mm per year and also increasing trend for both maximum and minimum temperature by 0.0190C per year and 0.0690C per year, respectively. Analysis of the climatic data strongly supports the farmers' perception about the climate change. Studying the impacts of climate change experienced by farmers could form the base for further research and development of adaptation measures for sustainability of agriculture and preparing farming community in alternative agriculture to tackle the emerging problem of food insecurity.