Adaptation of small scale farmers to climatic risks in India - Sustainet

The main traditional crops in the region are paddy, finger millet, wheat, barnyard millet, maize,
amaranth, barley, pulses and oilseeds. A typical cropping system in Garhwal is the rice-wheat system,
in which rice, together with millets, amaranth and pulses, is grown during the rainy (kharif) season
(June – October); and wheat, together with mustard, during the winter (rabi) season (November –
March). Rice and wheat are grown on irrigated terraces; whereas on non-irrigated terraces typical crops
are millet and amaranth, but also drought-resistant rice varieties.
4.2 Observed changes in climatic variability
4.2.1 Scientific Reviews
Some evidence on climate change in different parts of Himalaya has been reported, although such
examples are scanty due to a lack of instrumental data. Various studies suggest that warming in the
Himalayas has been much greater than the global average of 0.74 ˚C over the last 100 years (IPCC,
2007a; Du et al., 2004).The data available on temperature in the Himalayas indicate that the warming
during last 3-4 decades was more pronounced than the global average of 0.75% over last century.
Some of the data indicate that the Himalayas are warming 5-6 times faster than the global average
(Singh,S.P. 2007).
Figure xiii Paddy nursery in the village Nala of Uttarakhand
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