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Climate change impacts agriculture, threatens food security in Odisha |
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Food security is threatened in parts of Orissa (Odisha) where climate change has been a phenomenon. Rise in temperature and sea level has made agriculture vulnerable as seawater is more often gushing into the land filling their paddy fields with saline water. With no other option, the farmers work hard to grow paddy every year with a hope that this year would go well for them. However, their hope never sustain as the gushing seawater combined with erratic rain often destroys their crop. Agriculture across the coast of Orissa (Odisha) is now facing a situation of climate emergency. "The Sea is crossing the embankment more often and damaging our crop by filling the land with saline water", says Bata Pradhan of Udaykani Village in Orissa's Puri District. Because agriculture is almost regularly hit by tidal waves and floods, food security of these people has been threatened as they have no other option to earn a livelihood and feed the family. "The saline water has become a threat to us. Every year it is betraying us. We lose our crop. As there is no alternate livelihood option available at this place, we are forced to starve", says Dhabaleswar Pradhan of Chhenu Village in Puri district. |
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While these people seriously look for an alternate option, scientists are advising the farmers to go for crop diversification as an adaptability measure. Realising that agriculture is being worst affected by climate change, an Agronomist at Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) in Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa, Hemant Kumar Sahu says, "we are asking the farmers to go for crops that can sustain against the impacts of climate change". Changing climate pattern is not only affecting agriculture in coastal villages, the farmers living in forest areas are also facing the wrath of climate change. Rain pattern has also changed drastically in the forest areas during the last years. A tribal rights activist and President of Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti, Kumti Majhi of Kendubordi Village in Kalahandi district of Orissa observes, "earlier, the rain was proper and timely for agriculture. Now, may be due to pollution, the rain pattern has gone erratic". While Orissa (Odisha) is still struggling to overcome the issue of Hunger, climate change is leading to a situation of climate emergency threatening food security across the state. Video Info: Date of Release - 28 October 2011, Location - Kalahandi, Jagatsinghpur, Puri, Shot in October 2011 and earlier, Video Format - PAL DVCAM |
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