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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Maharashtra: ‘Climate-smart’ farming to offset drought

Maharashtra: ‘Climate-smart’ farming to offset drought

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published Published on Aug 12, 2016   modified Modified on Aug 12, 2016
-The Indian Express

A senior state official said that the objective would be on environmental training focused on protecting water resources, preventing deforestation, safer pesticide use, and mitigating impacts of extreme climatic condition on farm produce

Mumbai:
After facing three severe drought spell in four years, Maharashtra has decided to embrace climate-smart agriculture. On August 10, the state cabinet gave its nod for an ambitious project of training farmers in 4,900 villages in drought ravaged Marathwada and Vidarbha belts in farm practices that are more adaptable and sustainable to climatic changes.

A senior state official said that the objective would be on environmental training focused on protecting water resources, preventing deforestation, safer pesticide use, and mitigating impacts of extreme climatic condition on farm produce. “The end objective is that the cropping pattern and produce should be climate resilient,” said a senior official.

The World Bank has decided to fund the pilot initiative, which will be replicated in other parts of the state if successful, sources revealed. The Cabinet on Wednesday approved a project for setting up the project’s management cell in Mumbai. A project report and the implementation roadmap will soon be readied, sources revealed.

The state agriculture department has also decided to undertake research for measuring greenhouse emission on farm lands in drought-prone areas as part of the pilot initiative. Meanwhile, in another decision, the state cabinet decided to set up a district-level Mining Foundation, to be headed by the Guardian Minister, for taking up development activities for mine-affected people in their respective belts.

According to this proposal, mining license holders in this district will be asked to contribute 10-30 per cent of royalty paid by them for activities of the Mining Foundation in each district. The government has claimed that the public exchequer will end up saving Rs 250 crore due to the initiative. The Cabinet also raised transportation allowance for fair price shop owners in the meeting on Wednesday.

The Indian Express, 11 August, 2016, http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/maharashtra-climate-smart-farming-to-offset-drought-2967063/


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