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enhancing both livelihood and nutrition
security.
• Launching a dynamic program in the area of
sea-water farming involving salt-tolerant vari-
eties, agro-forestry, and marine aqua-culture
• Mobile service to farmers for providing
weather information, agri-advisories, and sup-
ply of critical inputs
• Development of a safety net infrastructure that
includes insurance, emergency relief, and debt
waiver
• Broad-basing the scope of current credit deliv-
ery system and widening its coverage
• Development of seed bank, fodder and feed
bank, and grain bank at all agroclimatic zones
• Development of warehousing and storage
capacity for food grains of at least one million
tons capacity in major agroclimatic zones
• Development of fodder and food banks with
the help of self-help groups (SHG)
14.3.3 Infrastructure
Infrastructure development is a fundamental need
for climate resilient sustainable agriculture.
Infrastructure needs to be mainly developed in
the water and power sector to promote sustain-
ability of farm operations. End of line connectiv-
ity for irrigation water has to be improved for its
better availability at the farm level. Dedicated
power grids for agriculture should be constructed
and access to renewable energy sources to be
developed for deployment in agriculture sector.
Apart from this, infrastructural requirements to
improve rural connectivity for better access to
markets and improving supply chain effi ciency
have also to be met. Creation of additional and
improved storage facilities for seeds, food grain,
alternative markets, and auction houses and
establishment of terminal markets has to be
ensured. Further, in the domain of fi nancial and
institutional infrastructure, this dimension would
cater to the enhanced need for establishing a
safety net through effective risk management and
easy access to credit and reducing information
asymmetry. The details of opportunities for new
interventions in the functional area of infrastruc-
ture are as follows:
• Creation of alternative markets, auction houses,
vegetable centers, terminal markets, etc.
• Reuse/recycle of waste water and treatment of
poor quality water including saline water for
irrigation purposes.
• Web-based digitized climatic information and
forecasting system along with advisories to
end-users.
• Creating secondary storages in tail end of
canal commands to store water at the time of
excess availability for future use during criti-
cal periods
• Creating minor irrigation sources including
groundwater development structures
14.3.4 Capacity Building
Current capacity building initiatives involve
training and demonstration activities to farmers
and staff/offi cials. The scope of such initiatives
needs to be expanded to cover demonstrations on
a larger array of crops specifi c to regional weather
characteristics and market requirements.
Demonstrations of innovative crop and region
-specifi c technologies and practices would be
carried out at a more disaggregated level. A more
uniform and feasible structure for training of
farmers as well as staff/offi cials should be out-
lined. Extension education format would have to
be linked to technological development and
industry. Access to information would be aug-
mented by introducing mobile telephony-based
delivery modules for greater outreach.
Additionally, farmer-market-industry interfaces
should also be strengthened. The details of oppor-
tunities for new interventions in the functional
area of capacity building are as follows:
• Capacity building of stakeholders of agri-
supply chain
• Introduction of mobile phone-based informa-
tion delivery modules for faster dissemination
of knowledge
• To achieve synergy between government and
non-government initiatives for identifi cation
and strengthening collaboration in cross-cutting
areas
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