Event Name :
National Conference on Climate change and Agricultural Production
Event Venue :
Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour
Contact person details :
Dr R K Sohane
Director Extension Education
deebausabour@gmail.com
9199424640
Event Date :
4/6/2017
To
4/8/2017
Objective:
1. To focus on totality of the problem of climatic variability and change-its description, implications and explore approaches to maintain and increase crop productivity into the future.
2. Based on the deliberations, future research strategies and recommendations will be developed to address the emerging matrix of the agricultural problems in holistic manner
Pre Event Description :
The conference was organized under five themes namely, Climatic uncertainties, impact and adaptation in agriculture; Weather based information, crop simulation modeling and remote sensing applications in climate change; Natural resource management, information & communication management concerning climate smart agriculture; Crop weather pest dynamics and innovative agronomic and breeding practices and; Climate change and livestock, fisheries and poultry. In addition, 2 special sessions namely, "Abiotic Stress Tolerant Rice for Adaptation to a Climate Change” and Sustainable Intensification and Climate Smart agriculture for Smallholders in collaboration with IRRI (International Rice Research Institute), and CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center) were also organized, where about 16 international scientists participated.
Based up on above themes, a record (695) number extended research abstracts were received in addition to 28 invited talks and 300 full length papers. A total of 458 scientists /research scholars from various national and international institutes participated in the conference. The recommendations from these papers provide a solid framework for the Indian and Bihar government to improve its climate change policies and enhance its research in critical sectors and regions.