Why there is a need for transforming agriculture into a climate-resilient ecosystem?

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• Why There Is A Need For Transforming Agriculture
  Into A Climate-resilient Ecosystem?

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Table of content

• Why There Is A Need For Transforming Agriculture
  Into A Climate-resilient Ecosystem? 

Need For Transforming Agriculture Into A
Climate-resilient Ecosystem

• About Us

Measures To Create A Climate-resilient
Agricultural Ecosystem

• Climate-resilient Agriculture

Enhance Soil Organic Carbon
Response Farming
Conclusion
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About Us - Financing Solutions For Climate
Resilient, Future Ready Profitable Farming.

• Netafim Agricultural Financing Agency Pvt. Ltd.
  (NAFA) was promoted by Netafim Group, Israel to
  finance the stakeholders in micro-irrigation
  value chain. Netafim invented and pioneered the
  adoption of drip irrigation system across the
  world with the mission to promote a global change
  in the way water is used in agriculture.
• One of the major hurdles in adoption, of micro
  irrigation by farmers, was their access to
  finance, hence Netafim decided to provide
  financial solutions to the stakeholders in micro
  irrigation value chain. NAFA, the Non-Banking
  Finance Company (NBFC) of Netafim Group, received
  the RBI license and commenced operations in
  March2013.

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• Why There Is A Need For Transforming Agriculture
  Into A Climate-resilient Ecosystem? 

• Climate change can reduce agricultural income by
  lowering productivity. Though the agricultural
  finance companies can help provide agricultural
  loans to the farmers, it needs other strategies
  to deal with the adverse effects of climatic
  change, making it crucial to follow sustainable
  practices by adopting the latest technologies. It
  includes cultivating tolerant breeds which are
  less prone to climate change stress. Water and
  nutrient management are also crucial in this
  process. Read on to know more about the
  transformation of agriculture into a
  climate-resilient ecosystem.

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• Need For Transforming Agriculture Into A
  Climate-resilient Ecosystem

• Here are the two main reasons for transforming
  agriculture into a climate-resilient economy
• Alleviation of poverty
• Farmers are seen working in the most vulnerable
  areas and living in a similar scenario. Due to a
  lack of savings and easy access to financial
  resources, they are inefficient in dealing with
  natural disasters caused by climate change.
  However, if they learn to build a
  climate-resilient ecosystem, the problem can be
  considerably alleviated, decreasing their
  financial burden in such times.
• Ease of adaptation to climate changes
• A climate-resilient ecosystem includes
  introducing new farming techniques that can help
  farmers deal with situations such as high
  temperature-triggered drought, degradation of
  soil, severe storms,  and flood. Thus the crops
  can withstand these harsh situations by adapting
  to climate change. 

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• Climate-resilient Agriculture

• It is an approach that includes using the current
  natural resources to ensure higher productivity
  on a long-term basis and get adequate revenue
  even during variable climatic conditions. Such
  practices are aimed at eliminating hunger and
  poverty for the upcoming generations. With CRA
  practices, agricultural production can
  sustainably be taken to a global level with
  improved use of technology and climate-resilient
  practices.
• Measures To Create A Climate-resilient
  Agricultural Ecosystem
• Based on the climatic challenges, proactive
  policies have been implemented at the village
  level by the Government of India, Ministry of
  Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, and Indian
  Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). Some of
  the strategies include
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• Growing tolerant crops
• To adapt to low downpour conditions, the crops
  that mature early and tolerate drought are used
  on the farmers fields to enhance the yield by
  20-25 higher than the indigenous crops.

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• Measures To Create A Climate-resilient
  Agricultural Ecosystem

• Opting for tolerant livestock and poultry
• Tolerant poultry and livestock have the ability
  to resist drought. They can walk long distances,
  do thermoregulation, have fertility and motherly
  instincts, digest low-quality feed, and resist
  diseases. Despite their inability to produce
  enough milk or meat, they are adaptive to
  unpredictable environmental conditions, and their
  resource footprint is also low.
• Enhance soil organic carbon
• Various farm management practices help and
  stimulate the functional stability of the soil.
  Some techniques to increase soil organic carbon
  include agricultural conservation technologies
  such as crop rotation, cover crops, reduced
  tillage, and soil conservation practices such as
  contour farming. Even strategies are applied for
  nutrient recharge by providing a protective soil
  cover.

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• Enhance Soil Organic Carbon

• Opting for water-smart technologies
• It includes the use of furrow irrigated raised
  beds, rainwater harvesting, micro-irrigation,
  greenhouse, deficit irrigation, reusing
  wastewater, laser land levelling, cover crop
  technique, drainage management, and rainwater
  harvesting. All these help farmers reduce the
  impact of climatic variations. 
• Integrated nutrient management
• It uses organic and inorganic fertilisers through
  vermicompost, farmyard manure, crop residue, and
  rotating the leguminous plants to keep the soil
  healthy for an extended period.
• Managing feed
• It includes using techniques such as altering the
  feeding time, frequency, modifying diet
  composition, and others, which are some ways of
  reducing the risk from climatic variations,
  compensating for low feed consumption, and
  reducing the animal mortality rate.

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• Response Farming

• It is otherwise known as farming with advisories
  that provide details on local weather conditions.
  It uses location and time-specific technologies
  to help farmers alter the crops to the regions
  gradual variations in climatic conditions. 
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• Conclusion
• Steps are being taken today to help farmers in
  every way. It has led to the surfacing of
  agencies like NAFA (Netafim Agricultural
  Financing Agency), which assists farmers to
  finance their crops and livestock. But even after
  getting the agricultural loans,  they need to
  follow the strategies to get better yields
  because the conventional methods of agriculture
  are not enough when the climate is changing
  gradually. The government is also introducing
  various policies to boost the farmers income and
  protect the ecosystem.

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What We Promote?
Sustainable Agriculture Practices by promoting
climate resilient technologies by focusing on
using water efficiently to reduce negative impact
on environment.
Access to Financial Service To small holder
farmers and Small Medium rural agri enterprises
Improving Farmers Income Level By helping him to
adopt cash-crops, increasing crop-productivity
and helping him to grow more with less
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Thank you
Netafim Agricultural Financing Agency Pvt. Ltd.
(NAFA) Registered Office 1602 1603, The
Affaires, 16th Floor, Plot no. 9, Sector 17, Palm
Beach Road, Sanpada, Navi Mumbai 400 705,
Maharashtra.
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