Micro and small development projects should continue in Western Ghats region: Agrometeorology Scientist

Bengaluru Agrometeorology scientist M.B. Raje Gowda has suggested modifications to the Kasturirangan report by allowing micro projects and small developmental activities to continue in the Western Ghats region.

He said that while the Kasturirangan committee has collected and provided information about the social development works in the Western Ghats areas in relation to biodiversity and the environmental situation, there is no qualitative information about climate change in that areas and other parts of the State, particularly rainfall patterns and distribution, advantages and disadvantages in the agricultural sector Altered rainfall “Climate change is happening in the Ghat areas resulting in altered rainfall in other parts of the State. Our attempt is to highlight the research findings on the benefits experienced by the State’s agricultural sector owing to one of these situations,” he said.