Role of Traditional Crops and Varieties to Mitigate Emerging Climate Change on Agriculture-A Case Study from Bhor Region, Maharashtra

摘要

The biggest sources of biodiversity in tropical countries, the landraces, are threatened due to over exploitation, changing ecosystems and climatic conditions. India has great variation in climate and topography. In the present study, rural people from Bhor region cultivating traditional crops and varieties and their agricultural diversity for mitigating climatic change are presented.