Description : | The CoE-CCRPP established with the support of DST, Govt of India is to strengthen the global efforts to alleviate climate change impacts on agriculture and food security. The platform focus is to develop modern crop production and protection tools that can make agriculture more sustainable and climate resilient. Along with multilateral research institutes, under this CoE, total 27 small- & large-scale facilities has been established. State-of the art climate change research facilities has been established to study the impact of elevated temperature and CO2 with special reference to threats from pests and diseases. A dashboard (Web-Based MySQL database) http://ccrpp.iari.res.in/coe-pest/ has been developed for Pest / Disease / Weather data management for 10 major pests in rice, cotton, pulses, cabbage etc. Further, a web-enabled forewarning systems and mobile app for devising agro-advisory for various pests/ disease has been developed to predict pests & disease first appearance; peak outbreak for pests like pod borer in pulses, pink ball worm in cotton, plant hopper & sheath blight in rice, mungbean yellow mosaic virus and Diamond back moth, aphid in vegetable crops. Additionally, pest distribution risk maps for emerging and re-emerging diseases and pests in pulses under future climate scenario has been generated to develop adaptation strategies for managing these threats under changing climate. A series of experiments under simulated climatic conditions indicated that Increasing temperature & CO2 impacted positively the plant growth and support the vegetative growth, however, have significant negative impact on the foliar diseases as well as insect-pest as life expectancy is reducing under these conditions leading to a greater number of insect generations. Increased eCO2 is influencing the nutritional quality of crops. Study also indicated that under elevated CO2 in case of Pearl millet, Fe, protein, and Zn content is reduced by 15 - 40%, thus posing a significant impact on nutritional security. Program supported lot of capacity building activities such as various workshops/training sessions/conferences/symposiums trained 2513 participants (1768 males+745 females) participants; personals trained included 17 Ph.D., 15 M.Sc. and 8 interns and published 115 research articles, conference papers, 10 media outreach articles. An overall impact factor of 138.2 and NAAS rating of 261.05 was attained from 90 journal articles. |