Global climate change is posing serious threats to agrarian countries despite the facts that majority of them are not the major contributor in global warming. However, they are facing decline in agricultural productivity and water resources.
Speakers, during presentations in a seminar to the Agricultural Journalists Association (AJA), said the climate change cannot be avoided totally, but its effects can be mitigated through developing high temperature-tolerant, climate-resilient, climate-smart and genetically modified crops and constructing mega water reservoirs.
The seminar titled ‘Effects of climate change on agriculture, water resources and land and its acclimatisation in Pakistan’ was jointly organised by scientists from University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF), AJA, and Monsanto Pakistan.
They said Pakistan is one of those countries, which are facing climate change issues. The climate change has visible signs in Pakistan, which include hotter summers, early cold spell, monsoon irregularity with untimely rainfall, increased rainfall over short period causing water logging, increased frequency and intensity of floods – especially recent floods, which destroyed livelihoods in Punjab and Sindh districts – very little rainfall in dry period, crop failure due to drought and salinity intrusion along the coastal region.
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