• More area for cow sheds.
• More area during pregnancy of animals.
• Implement immediate emission reduction targets with the aim being to reduce
net emissions to zero as soon as practicable. The goal should be to achieve 95 %
of power from renewable sources by 2020, with a 90 % cut in overall emissions
by 2030. Introduce annual reduction targets.
• Enhance national capacity on decision support systems.
• Training on cow rearing for different seasons.
• Intensify efforts for increasing climate literacy among all stakeholders of agriculture, including students, researchers, policy planners, science administrators,
industry as well as farmers.
• Weather watch groups.
• Initiate further international treaty negotiations aimed at getting all countries to
agree to a global target of 90 % emissions reductions on 1990 levels by 2030.
• Balanced food feeding for fragment animals.
• Explore feasibility of establishing feed, fodder, and seed banks.
• Increase farm insurance coverage using weather derivatives.
• Enhance climate literacy.
• Start the transition to a zero-waste economy. Engage workers in industry, with
technical experts, to redesign their products and jobs sustainably.
• End industrial farming based on fertilisers, pesticides and fuel sourced from
petroleum. Restrict farming areas to ensure that riverine, forest and other
indigenous ecosystems return to healthy states. Encourage new farming practices including organic and urban farming.
14 Conclusion
Atmospheric temperature of the earth has been increased due to cumulative effects
of GHGs in the atmosphere emitted from different industrial and agricultural
activities of human. There is a serious threat of climatic changes (in the form of
severe droughts, floods, intense rainfall, and landslides) undermining development
programmes and millennium development goals aimed at reducing poverty.
Climate induced disasters directly affect the livelihood of the farmers. Since
livelihood of the farmers is based on agriculture and animal husbandry, all of the
respondents said that the decrease in the animal agricultural production weakened
the economic condition. Warming of the climate system of the earth has multifaceted effects on animals. Intensification and increase frequency of thermal stress
is the most prominent impact of global warming in dairy cattle resulting in different
physiological, metabolic and production disturbances. Importance of thermal stress
has been increased to the dairy farmers in tropical, subtropical and even in temperate region of the world due to atmospheric warming. Increased area for cow
shed and between the animals which will bring down the temperature in the
cowshed. It also suggested maintain water fountains and musical system nearby
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• More area during pregnancy of animals.
• Implement immediate emission reduction targets with the aim being to reduce
net emissions to zero as soon as practicable. The goal should be to achieve 95 %
of power from renewable sources by 2020, with a 90 % cut in overall emissions
by 2030. Introduce annual reduction targets.
• Enhance national capacity on decision support systems.
• Training on cow rearing for different seasons.
• Intensify efforts for increasing climate literacy among all stakeholders of agriculture, including students, researchers, policy planners, science administrators,
industry as well as farmers.
• Weather watch groups.
• Initiate further international treaty negotiations aimed at getting all countries to
agree to a global target of 90 % emissions reductions on 1990 levels by 2030.
• Balanced food feeding for fragment animals.
• Explore feasibility of establishing feed, fodder, and seed banks.
• Increase farm insurance coverage using weather derivatives.
• Enhance climate literacy.
• Start the transition to a zero-waste economy. Engage workers in industry, with
technical experts, to redesign their products and jobs sustainably.
• End industrial farming based on fertilisers, pesticides and fuel sourced from
petroleum. Restrict farming areas to ensure that riverine, forest and other
indigenous ecosystems return to healthy states. Encourage new farming practices including organic and urban farming.
14 Conclusion
Atmospheric temperature of the earth has been increased due to cumulative effects
of GHGs in the atmosphere emitted from different industrial and agricultural
activities of human. There is a serious threat of climatic changes (in the form of
severe droughts, floods, intense rainfall, and landslides) undermining development
programmes and millennium development goals aimed at reducing poverty.
Climate induced disasters directly affect the livelihood of the farmers. Since
livelihood of the farmers is based on agriculture and animal husbandry, all of the
respondents said that the decrease in the animal agricultural production weakened
the economic condition. Warming of the climate system of the earth has multifaceted effects on animals. Intensification and increase frequency of thermal stress
is the most prominent impact of global warming in dairy cattle resulting in different
physiological, metabolic and production disturbances. Importance of thermal stress
has been increased to the dairy farmers in tropical, subtropical and even in temperate region of the world due to atmospheric warming. Increased area for cow
shed and between the animals which will bring down the temperature in the
cowshed. It also suggested maintain water fountains and musical system nearby
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