Geospatial Assessment of Flood-Tolerant Rice Varieties to Guide Climate Adaptation Strategies in India

Rice is the most important food crop. With largest rain-fed lowland area in world, flooding considered as abiotic stress to rice production India. climate change, it expected that frequency and severity of floods will increase over years. These changes have a severe impact on agriculture livelihoods millions farmers flood affected region. There are numerous risk adaptation mitigation options available for Procuring, maintaining distributing newly developed submergence-tolerant variety called Swarna-Sub1 could play an role minimizing effect production. This paper assesses quantity cost flood-tolerant seed variety- Swarna-Sub1, would be required during main cropping season i.e., kharif at district level 17 major Indian states. The need SS1 seeds was assessed by developing geospatial framework using remote sensing map suitability SS1, help stakeholders prepare better managing risks. Results indicate districts Bihar, West Bengal Uttar Pradesh require highest amount strategies. total estimated requirement these states around 370 crores INR, less than 0.01 percent central government’s budget allocation sector.