2. Climate of
Institutionalisation
• Focus on eco industry
• Ecological entrepreneurs
• Eco scientists
• Eco institutions
3. Government Climate
• PM’s Climate Change Plan
• Epochal Plan has no space for
people and participation
• Formal Science, Conservationists,
industry and bureaucracy
• Seven missions
4. Climate of Contradictions
• Revitalizing and upscaling
community-based initiatives such
as joint Forestment Management
and Van Panchayat committees for
forest management
• Enhancing public and private
investments for raising plantations
for enhancing the cover and the
density of forests.
5. Biodiversity Climate
• Creation of biodiversity registers
(at national, and local levels) for
documenting genetic diversity &
associated trad knowledge
= commodification, IPR regime
• Effective implementation of the
National Biodiversity Conservation
Act, 2001
6. Adaptation Climate
• Not adaptation, but response.
We will fight climate change with
our knowledge. We will refuse to
roll over and adapt.
• Let our vulnerable communities
lead the path, not once again
become helpless recipients
7. AGRIBIZ Climate
• Focus would be on improving
productivity of rainfed
agriculture. India will spearhead
efforts at the international level to
work towards an ecologically
sustainable green revolution.
8. G E Climate
• make Indian agriculture more
resilient to climate change.
• develop new varieties especially
thermal resistant crops and
alternative cropping patterns,
capable of withstanding extremes
of weather, long dry spells,
flooding, and variable moisture
availability
9. G E Climate
• This will be supported by the
convergence and integration of
traditional knowledge and practice
systems, information technology,
geospatial technologies and
biotechnology
10. G E Climate
• Use of genetic engineering to convert
C-3 crops to the more carbon
responsive C-4 crops to achieve
greater photosynthetic efficiency for
obtaining increased productivity at
higher levels of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere or to sustain thermal
stresses
11. Climate Compliant Crops
• High Heat, low rainfall
• Drought conditions
• High malnutrition
• Millets as answers to all these
challenges
• Wheat & rice may disappear
12. Heat & The Millet
• Sorghum and high heat
• Bajra and high heat
• Drought tolerance capabilities
• Natural C4 crops
• Thermally sensitive wheat
• GHG producing paddy rice
13. Water guzzlers vs
water conservers
Comparision of Water Requirement of Different Crops
(in mm) Pulses
2500 Bajra (Pearl millet)
2100
Ragi (Finger millet)
2000
Jowar (Sorghum millet)
1500
1250 Groundnut
1000 Maize
600
400 450 500 Cotton
500 300 350 350
Rice
0 Sugarcane
Water requirement (mm)
14. Price Water Couper
• One kg of paddy needs 3-4000
litres of water
• If priced for water, will cost Rs.40
per kg @ one paise/litre; rice:
Rs.70
• Every acre of paddy uses up 6 mln
litres of water
• Imagine the savings by millets
15. Rain Uncertain
• Traditional millet farming systems,
diversity
• Early rain, normal rain, delayed
rain, low rain, heavy rain: a
solution for every rain
• Non irrigated environments
• Uniform experience all across India
16. Protein Fibr Min Iron Cal
CROP (g) (g) (g) (mg) (mg)
Pearl millet
[SAJJA] 10.6 1.3 2.3 16.9 38
Finger millet
[RAGI] 7.3 3.6 2.7 3.9 344
Foxtail millet
[KORRA] 12.3 8 3.3 2.8 31
Little millet 7.7 7.6 1.5 9.3 17
Rice 6.8 0.2 0.6 0.7 10
Wheat 11.8 1.2 1.5 5.3 41
17. Carbon Sequesters
• Traditional
millet cropping
systems
• Legumes with
sorghum and
millets
• Carbon
sequestering
capacity
18. Honouring Millets
* ANNOUNCE
• Biodiversity bonus
• Water conservation bonus
• Climate change bonus
• Rs.5000/Ha for minor millets
• Rs.2000/Ha for major millets
• Peanuts in front of 140000 cr
subsidy on chemical fertilisers
19. People - Climate
• Food, nutrition and health
Sovereign communities
• Dryland communities where most
poor and marginalised live
• Non irrigated rainfed crops
• Create multiple securities
• Honour and build communities of
the poor and the marginalised
