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18.5.1 CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES PERTAINING TO THE
AREA OF STUDY/RESEARCH/SUBJECT
The respondents narrated climate change issues pertaining to their area of
study/research/subject. The issues highlighted were nuclear and electronic
waste management, climate change and livestock management practices,
greenhouse gas emission, global warming and its effect on altering the
plant physiology and decreased yield of food grains, floods and uneven
rainfall as a serious threat, yield reduction of agricultural crops, climate
change and food security, land-use change, impact of climate variables
on environment, erratic weather pattern, air pollution, nonjudicious use of
ground water leading to lowering of water table among a few.
18.5.2 CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES OF IMMEDIATE CONCERN
TO FARMERS
The respondent's opinion on issues of climate change, which is a matter
of concern to the farmers, was mixed and varied. The main focus lied on
reduced productivity, droughts and higher infestation of insect, unpredict-
able weather conditions and swing of temperature, decreasing availability
of water, overuse of inorganic chemicals, soil and water pollution, fall in
the ground water level, degrading fertility of soil due to excessive use of
inorganic pesticides, erratic climatic behavior such as unseasonal rains,
winds, hail storms, etc.
18.5.3 INDIGENOUS/FARMERS KNOWLEDGE TO BE
APPLIED TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES
The indigenous/ farmers knowledge to be implemented in mitigating cli-
mate change threats were suggested by the respondents such as disposing
off wastes smartly through recycling and plowing organic wastes back
to the soil, use of gobar housing of animals, organic farming and con-
servation agriculture, composting at farmstead, biogas technique for suc-
cessful management of wastes, use of local herbs in control of pest and
diseases, folk lore, linking culture and tradition for predicting the climate
awareness, short duration cropping, indigenous storage mechanisms of
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