(The Gist of Science Reporter) How Millets can Make India's Food Basket Climate-resilient?

(The Gist of Science Reporter) How Millets can Make India's Food Basket Climate-resilient?

 [SEPTEMBER-2019]

 How Millets can Make India's Food Basket Climate-resilient? 

• INCREASING temperatures, Changing monsoon and more frequent extreme climate events are posing frequent a, threat to food security in India. A new study has found that while almost all grain crops are sensitive to these changes, adding more coarse grains or millets in crop production mix may help make food supply withstand the vagaries of climate change.
• In the past 45 years, the overall monsoon rainfall has decreased, there is greater variability in daily rainfall, temperatures have risen, extreme events have gone up and so has a frequency of droughts. The study quantified the impact of all these changes on crop yields all over the country during this period (1966-2011).

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