Climate-smart agri debate from Feb 13

RAJKOT: The Junagadh Agricultural University (JAU) will host a two-day national seminar on 'Water Management, and Climate Smart Agriculture' from February 13 where vice-chancellors from other universities of Gujarat and over 150 scientists from across the country will lay guidelines to develop a climate-smart water management and agricultural policy for sustaining food security.
"Agriculture faces the challenge of fulfilling the ever-expanding global food demand in the context of changing climatic conditions that negatively affect food production. Higher temperatures, shifting seasons and rainfall patterns, more frequent and extreme floods and droughts, pests and diseases, greenhouse gas emissions, depleted soil fertility and stress on water resources wreak havoc on food production and farmers' livelihoods," said a JAU official.
"During the two-day seminar, experts will discuss the research outcome and available climatic resilient technologies to identify future techniques for researchers and recommendations for farmers and field workers," the official added.