{"id":20118011,"date":"2023-06-26T16:04:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T10:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thethirdpole.net\/?p=118011"},"modified":"2023-07-11T21:41:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T16:11:57","slug":"marginalised-farmers-struggle-to-adapt-to-climate-change-uttarakhand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/marginalised-farmers-struggle-to-adapt-to-climate-change-uttarakhand\/","title":{"rendered":"Marginalised farmers struggle to adapt to climate change in Uttarakhand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Neema Devi sits with her sister-in-law, Prema Devi, threshing wheat by hand in the village of Dhudholi, in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Harvesting season is over and, in exchange for threshing wheat in their neighbour\u2019s courtyard, the two women receive hay for their cattle. Neema (Devi is generally an honorific for married women, rather than a family name) says their land is too small to provide them with enough hay. With their tiny plots, people like Neema Devi and Prema Devi are in the forefront of those dealing with climate impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Himalayas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3352921\/\">are warming faster<\/a> than the global average, which has immediate repercussions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2225-1154\/11\/1\/11\">on agriculture<\/a>, altering crop cycles, growing seasons and soil moisture. In Uttarakhand, a primarily mountainous province, with some foothills and plains, the problem is magnified <a href=\"https:\/\/revenue.uk.gov.in\/files\/Agriculture.Census.in.Uttarakhand.pdf\">because the majority of farmed land<\/a> \u2013 according to the most recent census done in 2011 \u2013 consists of \u2018marginal\u2019 plots of less than 1 hectare, (36% of the state\u2019s total farmed land) or small ones (1-2 hectares, 28% of the area).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-article-image aligncenter block--article-image block--article-image--article\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"block--article-image__column\"><div class=\"hide-expand block--article-image__image\"><img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_115325.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_115325-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_115325-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_115325.jpg 2560w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 768px, (max-width: 1024px) 1024px, 2560px\" alt=\"A woman threshing wheat \"\/><\/div><div class=\"block--article-image__content\"><div itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"block--article-image__caption\">Prema Devi threshing wheat (Image: Swati Thapa)<\/div><\/div><\/div><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_115325.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"2 MB\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1599\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"2560\"\/><meta itemprop=\"author\"\/><meta itemprop=\"representativeOfPage\" content=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-small-landholdings-make-it-harder-to-adapt\">Small landholdings make it harder to adapt<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Not everybody is equally hard hit. As one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Anusheema-Chakraborty\/publication\/322635777_Agriculture_in_the_western_Himalayas_-_an_asset_turning_into_a_liability\/links\/5b2b3506aca27209f3797b55\/Agriculture-in-the-western-Himalayas-an-asset-turning-into-a-liability.pdf\">study<\/a> points out, while all socio-economic groups are represented among small and marginal farmers, this is not true of large farm landholdings (over 4 hectares). Almost none of these are owned by Scheduled Caste, or Dalit, community members. Historically repressed, the Dalit community \u2013 to which Neema Devi and Prema Devi belong \u2013 has made progress since India\u2019s independence, but their marginalisation is still evident in small landholdings. <a href=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/\">Climate change<\/a> threatens even this limited progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Forget about selling [crops]; if we can grow enough to feed ourselves, we&#8217;re thankful,&#8221; says Neema Devi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-article-image alignright block--article-image block--article-image--fullwidth\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"block--article-image__column\"><div class=\"hide-expand block--article-image__image\"><img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_124618-scaled.jpeg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_124618-768x1004.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_124618-783x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_124618-scaled.jpeg 1959w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 768px, (max-width: 1024px) 1024px, 1959px\" alt=\"Prema Devi and Neema Devi heading back to their homes with hay they \ncollected for their cattle (Image: Swati Thapa)\"\/><\/div><div class=\"block--article-image__content\"><div itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"block--article-image__caption\">Prema Devi and Neema Devi heading back to their homes with hay they collected for their cattle (Image: Swati Thapa)<\/div><\/div><\/div><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_124618-scaled.jpeg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"1 MB\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"2560\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"1959\"\/><meta itemprop=\"author\"\/><meta itemprop=\"representativeOfPage\" content=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As climatic conditions change, some farmers in Uttarakhand are turning to new crops, with help from the government or NGOs, to maintain profitability. Unfortunately, this is not possible for many women and Dalit farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the state government now subsidises the distribution of kiwi plants, raising the fruit requires a significant investment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If you want an orchard, you will need support in the form of angle iron, which is a T-shaped support system for [each] plant, and in one <em>nali<\/em> [approximately 0.049 of an acre] of <em>zameen<\/em> [land] one can grow only eight trees, and one angle iron costs INR 4,000-5,000 [USD 50-60],&#8221; says Pawan, who works with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inhereindia.in\/\">Institute of Himalayan Environmental Research and Education<\/a> (INHERE), an NGO focused on sustainable development in the Himalayas. The cost of this infrastructure alone, before transportation and other inputs, would be nearly INR 40,000 (USD 500), roughly what an average resident of Uttarakhand earns in <a href=\"https:\/\/prsindia.org\/budgets\/states\/uttarakhand-budget-analysis-2023-24\">two months<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such investment is beyond the means of small and marginal farmers who earn much less than the average income, especially as kiwi plants take <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agrifarming.in\/kiwifruit-gardening-for-beginners-how-to-start\">3-5 years<\/a> to start bearing fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another climate adaptation initiative the government and other organisations are suggesting is the cultivation of herbs and medicinal crops. But this needs a lot of land, which poorer farmers, women farmers, or Dalit farmers, are not likely to have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If we just sell the leaves of tulsi [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/plant\/holy-basil\"><em>Ocimum tenuiflorum<\/em><\/a>], the market price is really low, and if we sell the oil extracted from it, the rates are higher, but [a plant] only provides a very small quantity [of oil],\u201d says Pawan from INHERE. The same is true for lemongrass, he adds: \u201cIf you need 100 millilitres of lemongrass oil, you&#8217;ll need at least 10 quintals [one metric ton] of produce, which covers a large area.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-article-image aligncenter block--article-image block--article-image--article\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"block--article-image__column\"><div class=\"hide-expand block--article-image__image\"><img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_184308.jpeg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_184308-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_184308-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_184308.jpeg 2560w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 768px, (max-width: 1024px) 1024px, 2560px\" alt=\"Although most farming in Uttarakhand is done by women this sign calls on &quot;farmer brothers' to use organic fertilizers (Image: Swati Thapa)\"\/><\/div><div class=\"block--article-image__content\"><div itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"block--article-image__caption\">Although most farming in Uttarakhand is done by women this sign calls on &#8220;farmer brothers&#8221; to use organic fertilizers (Image: Swati Thapa)<\/div><\/div><\/div><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_184308.jpeg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"2 MB\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1920\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"2560\"\/><meta itemprop=\"author\"\/><meta itemprop=\"representativeOfPage\" content=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Organic farming is another tack pursued by the government and various NGOs to help people adapt to climate change. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usoca.org\/index.html\">Uttarakhand State Organic Certification Agency<\/a> (USOCA) was set up to facilitate the shift. The emphasis is on indigenous crops like finger millet and barnyard millet, which are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vigyanvarta.com\/adminpanel\/upload_doc\/June%202020.pdf#page=13\">more climate resilient<\/a>, mould-resistant, and can often grow without irrigation. However, USOCA\u2019s non-discriminatory policy pledges ring hollow when lack of resources create barriers to small or marginal farmers adopting organic farming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMany Dalit families don&#8217;t even have enough livestock to make cow dung fertiliser,\u201d says Geeta Bisht, an agriculture specialist from INHERE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fluctuating rainfall, and little protection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Marginal farmers are also struggling with <a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1029\/2020GL087815\">greater rainfall fluctuation<\/a>. Only <a href=\"https:\/\/agriculture.uk.gov.in\/\">45% of farmland<\/a> in Uttarakhand is irrigated, so most rely on rainfall for their crops. Kheema, a field coordinator for the Association for Rural Planning and Action (<a href=\"https:\/\/arpanuk.in\/\">ARPAN<\/a>), an NGO focusing on marginalised communities and women\u2019s rights, says rain either comes when it is not needed or is too heavy, destroying the crop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basanti Devi of Chinoni village told The Third Pole how her wheat crop was damaged during harvest this year: \u201cThe heavy rain washes away the plant&#8217;s yield, and whatever we can salvage gets wet, either sprouting or blackening it; in both cases, it becomes unfit for human consumption.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-pull-quote block--pull-quote block--pull-quote--no-citation\"><div class=\"block--pull-quote__wrapper\"><blockquote class=\"block--pull-quote__quote\">Non-discriminatory policy pledges ring hollow when lack of resources create barriers to small or marginal farmers<\/blockquote><cite class=\"block--pull-quote__cite\"><\/cite><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Neema said she and Prema grow crops like wheat solely for family consumption. Cash income comes from their fruit crops \u2013 oranges, lemons, plums and peaches. This year, unseasonal rainfall either washed away the flowers, or damaged the fruit, so they got no income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t even sell our fruits\u2026, now they rot on our trees,&#8221; Rama Devi says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some farmers share information and receive updates about government schemes through WhatsApp groups that NGOs also participate in. For poorer farmers, this remains out of reach as they cannot afford to invest in smartphones to use messaging apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t get to know about anything here, and by the time we do, it&#8217;s too late,&#8221; Rama Devi says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-article-image alignright block--article-image block--article-image--fullwidth\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"block--article-image__column\"><div class=\"hide-expand block--article-image__image\"><img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_120058-scaled.jpeg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_120058-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_120058-768x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_120058-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 768px, (max-width: 1024px) 1024px, 1920px\" alt=\"Chandra Devi, a farmer, sells her vegetable crop at the nearby Chinoni village shop (Image: Swati Thapa)\"\/><\/div><div class=\"block--article-image__content\"><div itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"block--article-image__caption\">Rama Devi with her meagre wheat crop. Erratic rains and foraging by wild animals have left her family with almost nothing (Image: Swati Thapa)<\/div><\/div><\/div><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_120058-scaled.jpeg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"911 KB\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"2560\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"1920\"\/><meta itemprop=\"author\"\/><meta itemprop=\"representativeOfPage\" content=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>With such unpredictable weather patterns, the government has supported crop insurance schemes, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/agriculture.uk.gov.in\/pages\/display\/266-pmfby-guideline\">Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana<\/a> or Prime Minister Crop Insurance Scheme. What such schemes ignore is that many poorer farmers, particularly women and Dalit women, work on land that they do not own. They either share the profits with the titular owner of the land, or \u2013 a practice found in the mountain communities of Uttarakhand but not in the plains, according to Bisht of INHERE \u2013 they are allowed to keep all the produce in exchange for not leaving the land barren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People who work land that is in the names of absentee landlords cannot get crop insurance. Furthermore, rising temperatures have brought&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/view\/journals\/wcas\/13\/2\/WCAS-D-20-0077.1.xml\">an increase in pest attacks and diseases<\/a>, forcing farmers to use more pesticides. This adds to out-of-pocket expenses for those farming on the land of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While climate change has a direct impact on yield, some farmers, such as Rama Devi, have seen their lands suffer as well. Uttarakhand witnessed&nbsp;devastating<a href=\"https:\/\/sandrp.in\/2021\/10\/12\/uttarakhand-cloud-bursts-in-sw-monsoon-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;heavy rains<\/a>&nbsp;causing flood and destruction of property in many places&nbsp;in<a href=\"https:\/\/floodlist.com\/asia\/india-floods-landslides-uttarakhand-october-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;2021<\/a>. Due to no proper drainage system in place, water from the highway,&nbsp;located just a ten minute walk upfill from their farm (registered under her husband\u2019s name), washed away about 1,000 square feet of their fields. &#8220;Those lands had lemon and orange trees.&nbsp;We even grew cucumbers, but now nothing remains of it,\u201d Rama Devi told The Third Pole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Forest fires add to woes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A third climate impact is the <a href=\"https:\/\/fireecology.springeropen.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s42408-023-00177-4\">increase of forest fires<\/a> in Uttarakhand, which have risen \u201cfrom 922 in 2002 to 41,600 in 2019,\u201d with a strong positive correlation between outbreaks of fires and periods of hotter weather. For small farmers like Neema, this means human-animal conflict, as animals flee the forests: &#8220;Monkeys and wild boar leave nothing on our lands, and because our homes are on the outskirts of the forest, we are on the front lines of their attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Uttarakhand&#8217;s rural areas, the long impact of marginalisation means Dalit communities are often located on the outskirts of the village, leaving their fields more vulnerable to animal incursions. Furthermore, this segregation by socio-economic grouping means that government or NGO initiatives or information reach them last, if at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo one ever visits us, we&#8217;re mostly ill-informed of what&#8217;s happening, what new schemes are coming in. Even the track leading to our houses is not well maintained and becomes impossible to walk on when it rains,\u201d says Prema Devi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-article-image alignleft block--article-image block--article-image--fullwidth\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"block--article-image__column\"><div class=\"hide-expand block--article-image__image\"><img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_124646.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_124646-768x1029.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_124646-764x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_124646.jpg 1911w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 768px, (max-width: 1024px) 1024px, 1911px\" alt=\"Prema Devi and Neema Devi walk home over difficult terrain. Like many Dalit families in Uttarakhand they live on the village outskirts, with scant facilities or infrastructure (Image: Swati Thapa)\"\/><\/div><div class=\"block--article-image__content\"><div itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"block--article-image__caption\">Prema Devi and Neema Devi walk home over difficult terrain. Like many Dalit families in Uttarakhand they live on the village outskirts, with scant facilities or infrastructure (Image: Swati Thapa)<\/div><\/div><\/div><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Uttarakhand-marginalised-farmers_124646.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"2 MB\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"2560\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"1911\"\/><meta itemprop=\"author\"\/><meta itemprop=\"representativeOfPage\" content=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Rama Devi\u2019s life reflects the progress made by Dalit communities, and the distance still to go: \u201cWe used to live even further down and shifted here a mere 30 years ago. Even now, it takes 15 minutes to walk down the main road and so we never get to know what is happening in the village,\u201d she tells The Third Pole. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government of Uttarakhand is running several schemes to provide <a href=\"https:\/\/dohfp.uk.gov.in\/?page_id=5752\">seeds<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fert.nic.in\/fertilizer-subsidy\">fertiliser<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/agrimachinery.nic.in\/Index\/Index\">heavy machinery<\/a> to local farmers. However, farmers must first obtain the land-related documents, then travel to the block office to collect the subsidised material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to cultural constraints, women are either not educated enough, or familiar enough, to navigate often male-dominated official systems. Relying on their men to do so may not be an option, as Uttarakhand has a <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s41027-020-00291-w\">long history of men leaving to support their families<\/a> through jobs elsewhere. &#8220;The schemes are made for the men here, so they are the only ones who can benefit from them,&#8221; says Kheema. The journey between their homes and the government offices is also too expensive for some.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe earn nothing from this land, but it drains all of our money; we have to spend 350 rupees [USD 4.30] every time we visit the [sub-divisional government] office, and even then, there is no guarantee of when the consignment will arrive,&#8221; says Bharti Devi, a woman Dalit farmer from Dhudholi village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Third Pole reached out to the Additional Agriculture Director of Uttarakhand to ask if the government knew of these challenges and if there were steps being taken two weeks before publication. 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