Indian Farmers Struggle as Climate Change Warps Landscape

Once-thriving crops are poorly adapting to new temperatures.

A farmer looks at a field of paddy crops that are submerged in water. October 24, 2025, 11:46 AM Comment icon View Comments ( )

An hour away by car from the busy Indian port city of Visakhapatnam, the countryside is changing rapidly. Vast stretches of what once were paddy fields are now home to gleaming, modern housing developments.

A generation ago, this land would have grown all manner of crops from rice and sesame seeds to sugar cane and banana plants. But climate change is driving a rapid transformation. With crops routinely withering and dying, farmers must now look elsewhere for a living. It is just one symptom of India’s shifting agricultural landscape

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