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Book's First Page8.56 ndian onom been taken to ensure mainstreaming of women in agricultural strategies suitable to their local agriculture sector: conditions. The CSA aims to tackle three main Earmarking at least 30 per cent of the objectives— budget allocation for women beneficiaries (i) Sustainably increasing agricultural in all ongoing schemes and programmes. productivity and incomes; Initiating women centric activities. (ii) Adapting and building resilience to Focus on women self-help group (SHG) climate change; and by delivering micro-credit and right (iii) Reducing and/or removing greenhouse information together with involving gas emissions wherever possible. them in the decision-making bodies. Though, this new concept is at a nascent Recognising the critical role of women in stage in India, the Government has already agriculture, the Ministry of Agriculture started taking policy initiatives in this direction. and Farmers Welfare has declared 15th At present, climate resilient technologies are October of every year as Women Farmer’s being demonstrated in 153 model villages Day. under KVK (Kisan Vikas Kendra) covering 23 Indian farm sector needs a gender specific states under National Innovations on Climate policy framework to adjust with the existing and Resilient Agriculture (NICRA). In addition, 623 emerging realities in the sector. Such a nuanced contingency plans have been prepared to manage policy intervention will not only enhance food various weather aberrations such as droughts, security but promote gender equality, extension floods, cyclones, hailstorms, heat and cold waves. services, sustainability and all-round development in the rural areas. looKInG AHeAd Though the share of agriculture and allied sector clImAte smArt AGrIculture in gross value added (GVA) is on decline, the Climate change can impact the farm sector latest Economic Survey 2017-18 suggests that in in different ways—increased variability in the process of inclusive growth in the country, the temperature, rainfall, extreme weather events like sector will remain an engine of broad based growth. drought and flood. These incidences ultimately This will not only reduce inequalities and poverty hit the farm community in a very negative way. but will also strengthen food security. To fight out these uncertainties development of At present, the agriculture sector of the a climate resilient agro-system is the need of the country is experiencing structural changes which hour. are opening up new challenges and opportunities. It is in this backdrop that the new concept of The initiatives taken by the Government in Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) has emerged.83 this regard are multi-dimensional and oriented It is an approach that helps to guide actions towards transforming the sector— needed “to transform and reorient agricultural Agricultural marketing systems to effectively support development and Initiation of technology ensure food security under changing climate”. It Adoption of Direct Benefit Transfer aims to provide stakeholders the means to identify (DBT) mode for timely delivery of 83. Economic Survey 2017-18, Vol. 2, pp. 113-114, extension services, credit and other inputs Ministry of Finance, GoI, N. Delhi. to small and marginal farmers.