Climate change huge challenge to farmers: Minister

Kochi: Climate change is seen as a bigger threat than war and it also poses challenges to farmers today, Kerala Agriculture Minister P Prasad said. He called the weatherbased insurance introduced by the Spices Board for small cardamom as an encouraging initiative. Prasad presented Spices Board’s Small Cardamom Productivity Awards and distributed weather-based crop insurance policy to the beneficiaries.

“Climate change and global warming are more threatening than war and that’s the biggest challenge for farmers today. We should be more serious about climate change and the weather-based insurance introduced by the Spices Board for small cardamom is an encouraging initiative,” Prasad said.

The minister also suggested to farmers that they must adopt progressive farming methods like carbon neutral agriculture for food safety in cultivation.