National Agricultural Disaster Management Plan soon to be rolled out

The Union agriculture ministry, has prepared a disaster management plan which it is going to roll out soon. The plan targets 34 hazards that pose a risk to the agricultural sector and where timely interventions are needed such as droughts and floods, locusts attack, worms, black swan, heat waves, earthquakes, animal attacks on fields, desertification, agricultural fires, cyclone and over-dependence on chemicals and even other pandemics that may cause severe disasters, like the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, according to a central official. Region-specific hazards on the basis of the 15 aggro-climatic zones defined by Niti Ayog, will be taken into consideration.