V Prakash, director of Central Food Technological Research Institute said that every one degree rise in temperature is reducing agricultural yield by 10%, and rice and wheat are some of the important crops that are the victims of this climate change.
“It is scary. Hotter climate is reducing agricultural yield in India and the situation is bad compared to other parts of the world,” said V Prakash, director of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) on Friday. He added that every one degree rise in temperature is reducing agricultural yield by 10%, and rice and wheat are some of the important crops that are the victims of this climate change.
Prakash was delivering the Prof LS Venkataramanan Memorial Lecture on ‘Challenges in reach-out of safe and nutritious food through PPP - The inclusiveness for urban and the more inclusiveness for rural indeed!’ at the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC).
Prakash further stated that the demand for food crops is growing with the population. “How many of us know how to grow paddy? There are very few growers and a large number of consumers. One should wonder how many would be left to do farming and feed urbanites in 2025. The increase in the number of Big Bazaars and other commercial outlets won’t help in addressing food shortage, as there are serious problems with productivity and production,” he said.
Prakash, who is also the president of the Nutrition Society of India, said that the falling rate of agricultural production is more in countries like South Asia, including India, South East Asia, and those in Africa. “Experts have zeroed in the drastic effect on agricultural practices in these countries, after analysing over 10,000 years of farming history,” he said.
The ISEC director Dr RS Deshpande said that food processing is a difficult task in India and it is high time public and private minds join hands and develop a holistic plan to address the issue.
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