Agriculture Sector:

• Develop a strategy to address impacts of variability of temperature, precipitation and

extreme events.

• Improve the crop productivity per unit of land and per unit of water by increasing the
efficiency of various agricultural inputs, in particular the input of irrigation water;

• Promote energy efficient farm mechanisation for increasing yield, water conservation
and labour saving;

• Improve farm practices by laser land levelling, crop diversification, proper cropping
patterns, optimised planting dates etc.;

• Provide incentives for adoption of water saving technologies.

• Development of droughts and pest resistant crop varieties.

• Use feed conservation techniques and fodder banks in the arable areas.

• Develop quality datasets on crop, soil, land use patterns and water resources.

• Expand and upgrade meteorological services for weather and climate information.

• Enhance the research capacity of various relevant organisations to make reliable

predictions of climatic parameters and river flows at seasonal, inter-annual and inter-
decadal levels, to assess the corresponding likely impacts on various crops and to
develop appropriate adaptation measures;

• Development of GIS and remote sensing methodologies for detailed soil resource
mapping and land use planning.

• Capacity building of farming communities through Stakeholder consultations, and

training workshops.

• Develop a risk management system to safeguard against crop failures and extreme
events (floods, droughts etc.)

• New methods of rice cultivation that have lower methane emissions;

• New methods for reducing Nitrous Oxide releases from agricultural soils.

• Develop techniques for capturing methane emissions from manure handling facilities.

• Replace conventional tillage methods with conservation tillage methods

Livestock Sector:

• Develop and introduce better varieties of livestock which have higher productivity of
milk and are less prone to heat stress and more drought tolerant;

• Development of nutritional strategies for managing heat stress in dairy animals to

prevent deficiencies leading to low milk yield and productivity.

• New breeds of cattle which are more productive in terms of milk and meat but have
lower methane production from enteric fermentation.

• New economical feeds that reduce methane production activity of cattle besides
providing them with better nutrition.