Prof B N Tripathi

vcskuastjammu@gmail.com

Climate change has ceased to be a distant scientific term; it has become a lived reality for farmers across India. When rains concentrate into hours rather than days, steep slopes fail, gullies widen, and agricultural terraces collapse. The recent heavy rains, cloudbursts, and landslides in the hilly regions of Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh, coupled with flooding in the plains of Punjab, have once again reminded us how fragile our agricultural systems are when faced with nature’s unpredictability. In the hill districts of these states, mudslides have swept away fields, orchards, and access roads. In many areas, soils have been stripped from slopes and re-deposited downstream, altering soil profiles and fertility. In the plains like Punjab,

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