Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies
Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is an integrated approach to managing landscapes that addresses the interlinked challenges of food security and accelerating climate change. It aims for a ‘triple win’: sustainably increasing agricultural productivity, adapting and building resilience to climate change, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions wherever possible.
How the Technologies/Methods Works
- Carbon Sequestration: Technologies like "No-Till" farming involve planting seeds without tilling the soil. This keeps carbon stored in the ground rather than releasing it into the atmosphere as CO2.
- Methane Mitigation: In rice cultivation, Direct Seeded Rice (DSR) and Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) techniques reduce the time fields are submerged, ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material before the last six months of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Related Content
- 1 Key Private Players in India’s Space Sector
- 2 Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) TD-2 Testing
- 3 Success of SSLV (Small Satellite Launch Vehicle)
- 4 Discoveries by James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
- 5 Historic Advances in Black Hole Imaging
- 6 Green Shipping and Decarbonisation of Maritime Transport: Alternative Fuels and Technologies
- 7 NASA’s Artemis Program
- 8 XPoSat – India’s First Polarimetry Mission
- 9 Gaganyaan Mission
- 10 Aditya-L1 Mission
