India Needs Rs 1,08,000 Crore For Food Security

Over 60% of the money will be spent on developing new technologies, crop varieties and new practices to fight climate change.

"There is a new way to promote use of wheat and rice varieties that consume 30-40% less water than traditional varieties. Farmers also need to be educated about early harvesting technologies to check impact of rising temperature," a senior scientist with the Indian Council for Agriculture Research said.

Climate change poses biggest risk to country's food security as Pune-based Indian Institute for Tropical Meteorology has already shown that global warming was causing erratic monsoon behaviour. Read the full report here.

Source: Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times, New Delhi.