Syllabus: GS-III.
Subject: Economic Development.
Topic: Cropping patterns in various parts of the country.
Context: Farmers organized an indigenous seed festival and pledged to conserve different varieties of native seeds.
Synopsis:
- Hundreds of farmers exchange native paddy, pulses, and vegetable varieties.
- Organized by ActionAid, Kajla Janakalyan Samiti, and Purba Medinipur Kisan Swaraj Samity.
- Part of ActionAid’s climate justice campaign, promoting sustainable farming.
- Aims to build discourse on climate change, organic farming, and seed conservation.
- Plan to establish grassroots seed banks across the state.
- Farmers emphasize the need to regain control over traditional seeds for safe food.
- Festival addresses environmental damage and vulnerability caused by modern agriculture.
Climate Resilience Agriculture:
- Climate-resilient agriculture (CRA) is an approach to farming that helps agricultural systems withstand organized the increasing challenges(droughts, flash floods) posed by climate change.
- preparing the crop to face the harsher and more unpredictable weather patterns that are becoming the new normal.
 It focuses on
- Adaptation.
- Sustainable Resource Management.
- Encouraging biodiversity-livestock.
- Knowledge and Innovation- adapting new technologies.
