'People need no extra fear for climate change'
Source: The Sangai Express / Newmai News Network

Imphal, August 26 2014: Vice-Chancellor of Manipur University, Prof HNK Sarma today said that fear of the affects of climate change being widely employed in the public domain was to be erased from the mind and forgotten.

The adaptive nature of the human and the brain can always carry out research and they have thinking power and capability of creating ideas, so people need no extra fear in the potential effects of climate change, Prof Sarma said at an awareness programme on climate change in agriculture under National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) held at ICAR-RC for North East Hills Region, Manipur Centre, Lamphelpat in Imphal West.

Sarma said scientists can easily change the whole climate change story, but natural disasters like flood and earthquakes are unpredictable and uncontrollable.

It has been calculated that the global temperature will rise by 2 degree celsius in the next two-three decades, he mentioned.

In the hope to counter the change in temperature and its possible outcome which is to affect the food productivity level, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), scientists and researchers are now working hard, Prof Sarma said.

Nearly 40 percent of national growth product rate of the country comes from the agrarian sector, he said, but added that the agricultural sector of the USA shares only 1 or 2 percent in its total growth product.

India will face famine if its agriculture becomes a weak sector in future due to certain causes like climate change, he said.

He added that research is on in every parts of the world on global warming and countries are working on it with huge funding.

Scientists and researchers working in the field of climate change are causing fear to people on the potential effects of climate change and at the same time Governments of their respective nations are funding to prevent this fear.

Prof Sarma said even super computers cannot predict 'what will happen to us' due to climate change within 10-20 years since there are millions of variable parameters.

At the occasion, Agriculture minister Md Nasir distributed crop seeds to farmers and an interaction session between the farmers and agricultural scientists were also held.

Dr Narendra Prakash, Joint Director, ICAR, Manipur Centre was also present during the function.

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