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Agriculture is significant for ensuring food, nutrition and living securities for India and it connect almost two-third of the labour force in lucrative employment. On account of its close linkages with other economic sectors, agricultural growth has a multiplier effect on the entire economy of the country. Even though in the past years, Indian agriculture had made a significant progress, but currently it faces many challenges. Stagnation of net sown area, plateauing yield level, and deterioration of soil quality, reduction in per capita land availability and the adverse effect of climate change are the major challenges to Indian agriculture. Agriculture is a cause of climate change and also suffers from the consequences. key adverse impacts of climate change on agriculture are owing to increase in temperature; change in rainfall pattern; weather hazards, decline in soil and water quality; shifting dynamics of insects, diseases, soil flora and fauna; intrusion of sea water on land and biotic and a biotic stresses arising due to climatic extremes. There could be a few positive impacts of climate change on agriculture in some locations because of change in temperature and moisture regimes.