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

Abstract

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