India
November 29, 2007
Source:
CropBiotech Update
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) of the
Ministry of Agriculture plans to focus on R&D and deployment of
new technologies to cope with the impact of climate change in
Indian agriculture. ICAR's two- day national conference on
climate change and Indian agriculture held on 12-13 Oct 2007
recommended a series of policy measures and action plan to
increase the country's preparedness for management of likely
effects of the climate change.
ICAR recommendations include: strengthen research on impact
assessment on production resources, crops, livestock, fisheries
and microbes; institutionalize the monitoring of phonology as a
bio-indicator of climate variability; intensify search for genes
for stress tolerance and research efforts on marker aided
selection (MAS) and transgenic development (GM crops) for biotic
and abiotic stress management; develop heat and drought tolerant
genotypes; attempt transforming C3 plants to C4 plants; enhance
genetic potential and use of engineered microbes for biofuels;
develop new land use systems and enhance value added weather
management services. It also calls for exploring international
partnership and establishing 'Green Research Fund' to strengthen
research on adaptation, mitigation and impact assessment on
climate change.
View ICAR recommendations on climate change and Indian
agriculture at
http://www.icar.org.in/Recommendations-CLIMATE-CHANGE-CONFERENCE.pdf
For more information on biotech in India contact Bhagirath
Choudhary of the International Service for the Acquisition of
Agri-biotech Applications South Asia Office at
b.choudhary@isaaa.org.
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