Odisha’s agricultural and allied sectors face severe threats from climate change. These sectors are crucial for the state’s economy yet are increasingly at risk to climate extremes. This scoping report series is an exercise to identify the priority districts for intervention to build resilience sustainably in the agriculture and allied sectors of the state. It leverages three key components to investigate the nature, extent, and intensity of impacts on agriculture and allied sectors: Resource Use Profiling (RUP), Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Inventory, and Climate Risk Assessment (CRA). The result is a triangulated determination of top district(s) with inefficient resource use, high GHG emissions and extreme climate risks to the sector to guide the development of District-Level Climate Action Plans and implementing Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices. This scoping study report series is split into three parts. Part 1 dives into the RUP and GHG emissions inventory, while Part 2 presents the Climate Risk Assessment, and the Scoping Study triangulates results from Part 1 and 2 to pinpoint priority districts to promote CSA interventions to maximise
climate benefits.
The resource use profiling section of the study provides a detailed examination of the inputs required for paddy cultivation in Odisha, focusing on the intensity and efficiency of fertiliser, water, and mechanisation use. Paddy was selected for this assessment due to its extensive cultivation across all districts and its significant share of input usage, which includes fertilisers, water, and agricultural machinery.
Click here to read the Scoping Study and Part 2 of the report series.
Kanchan Kargwal also co-authored this report.
