In India, floods, droughts, and a lack of access to irrigation infrastructure is making rice farming more difficult. With extreme weather events affecting cropping patterns, Indian growers need to be equipped with new farming methods. IWMI Principal Researcher Aditi Mukherji speaks to Al Jazeera on ways climate change will continue hurting Indian rice cultures if no action is taken.
Aditi Mukherjee, principal researcher at International Water Management Institute (IWMI) explained climate change has increased the probability of extreme events.
While “impacts of droughts can be somewhat mitigated through access to irrigation, parts of India [such as eastern India which is a major rice basket], do not have adequate affordable irrigation, and depend mostly on expensive-to-operate diesel pumps,” she said.
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Climate change is hurting India’s rice crop