Crop water requirement and crop physiology has changed in the recent times. Hence, knowledge on climate change effects need to be updated to work out mitigation strategies, Ashwani Kumar, Director, Directorate of Water Management, Bhubaneshwar, said here recently.

Inaugurating a two-day training on “Stakeholders' Consultation on Climate Change Platform” at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, he called for developing new climate change mitigation models that could be field tested on farmer holdings for them to see and believe.