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Sep. 27, 2014 (LBT) - It's the end of the monsoon season in India. But it's not been a good year.
During the sowing and planting season, when water was needed the most, rain was largely absent.
Now it's nearly harvest time and it has been raining heavily.
But for farmer Lovepreet Singh in the no

CGIAR Climate's insight:

People here have been helped to move to so-called "climate smart'' technology, trying to mitigate the impact changing weather patterns are having.

The Asia Development Bank recently warned that the impact of altered weather patterns could cause huge damage to the Indian economy, wiping off the equivalent of about 9% of GDP each year by the next century.

So it is critical to adapt, says Surabhi Mittal, an agricultural economist from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre.

"A two-degree increase in temperature is going to impact the yield of wheat the most," she says. "That means the producers and consumers are going to suffer. Wheat yields might go down. That means food prices are going to be higher for consumers."