{"id":124575,"date":"2021-08-09T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=124575"},"modified":"2021-08-09T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T12:25:00","slug":"national-innovations-in-climate-resilient-agriculturenicra-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-innovations-in-climate-resilient-agriculturenicra-2\/","title":{"rendered":"National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture(NICRA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1743354\"><b>PIB<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has informed Rajya Sabha about <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture(NICRA)<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About NICRA:<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><b>NICRA<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) is a network project of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) launched in February 2011.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Aim<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The project aims to enhance the resilience of Indian agriculture to climate change and climate vulnerability through strategic research and technology demonstration.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>The research on adaptation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and mitigation covers crops, livestock, fisheries and natural resource management.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><b>Objectives of NICRA:<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To enhance the resilience of Indian agriculture covering crops, livestock and fisheries to climatic variability and climate change through the development and application of improved production and risk management technologies.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To demonstrate site specific technology packages on farmers\u2019 fields for adapting to current climate risks<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To enhance the capacity building of scientists and other stakeholders in climate resilient agricultural research and its application.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><b>Components<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The Project is composed of Four Components:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Strategic research on adaptation and mitigation<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Technology demonstration on farmers fields to cope with current climate variability<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Sponsored and competitive research grants to fill critical research gaps<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Capacity building of different stakeholders<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: PIB What is the News? Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has informed Rajya Sabha about National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture(NICRA) About NICRA: National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) is a network project of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) launched in February 2011.\u00a0 Aim: The project aims to enhance&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-innovations-in-climate-resilient-agriculturenicra-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture(NICRA)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}