KAU rolls out climate-resilient farming project

It is intended to help farmers fend off challenges posed by climate change

A climate-resilient farming project has been rolled out in the coastal Puthenvelikkara panchayat to help the farming community fend off challenges posed by climate change and sustain livelihood.

This is one of the 25 innovative projects being implemented by the Kerala Agriculture University (KAU) to mark its 51st anniversary with the support of Equinoct, a community-sourced modelling solution provider initiated by IIT Bombay and NIT-Calicut alumnus. In the first phase, agriculture implements and inputs have been distributed to 93 landless agriculture labourers from the Scheduled Caste community based on their requirements.

“As per the revised agriculture policy, the State has been divided into 23 agro-ecological units with separate climate-resilient crops and farming methods. The project in Puthenvelikkara has been drawn up in compliance with features of the agro-ecological unit under which it falls. The idea is to offer a basket of crops, including saline water-tolerant ones, to farmers so that they can face challenges posed by extreme weather conditions,” said N. Miniraj, Dean, College of Agriculture, KAU.