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Kochi, Mar 13 (PTI) Climate change is seen as a bigger threat than war and it also poses challenges to farmers today, Kerala Agriculture Minister P Prasad has said.
Speaking at an event held here on Saturday, he called the weather-based 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 the 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 in shielding the farmers from such catastrophe," Prasad said.
The minister also suggested that the farmers practice and adopt progressive farming methods like carbon neutral agriculture for food safety in cultivation.