Climate Change and Its Impacts on an Indian Agriculture

The present research paper attempts to review global warming as one of the severe problems of the world that is responsible for climate change. It releases the pollutants harmful to the life on the earth. It affects the environment of the earth. It also affects an agriculture . India is an agricultural country. Mostly the fiscal position of the country is dependent on the agricultural production. The agriculture depends on the nature, particularly on the rainy and other seasons. Nowadays the cycle of seasons is changing due to the changing global climate. The global warming is increasing so is changing the conventional pattern of seasons. Untimely rain, wet and dry droughts, cloudbursts, floods are responsible elements for a grand loss received to the kharip and rabi crops in India. The farmers can’t repay the loan, debts borrowed from their relatives, friends and banks so they are committing suicides. From 30th November to 11th December 2015, the UNO’s Climate Change Summit was organized in Paris. The Paris Climate Summit, the UN’s meteorological agency injected the urgency of the negotiations by announcing that global temperatures were to set to rise 1°C above the pre –industrial era in 2015 , which was of course to be the hottest year on record by a wide margin. The summit meet was held in Paris to discuss on the limit of global greenhouse gas emissions to level that restricts worldwide temperature rise to 2°C by the end of the century. 2015 was almost the hottest year around the world since 1880. Average temperatures this year likely to reach global warming milestone of 1°C above pre-industrial level.(The Times of India-Times Global - dated 27/11/2015) Though the report –aggregate effect of national climate action plans-noted that the promises made by 146 countries as part of their efforts to fight climate change can dramatically slow global emissions and bring down per capita emissions in next 15 years. Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) reported that, ‘The INDCs have the capability of limiting the forecast temperature rise to around 2.7°C by 2100,by no means enough but a lot lower than the estimated 4,5,or more degrees of warming projected,’ said Christiana Figueres, an executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Global average temperature may rise by 2.7°C by 2100 from pre-industrialisation (1880) level (target was to keep it at 2°C). Countries- mainly those having high per capita emission like US, China, Russia and Japan- need to scale up emission cut target