Agriculture advancement amidst several climatic and non-climatic challenges is undoubtedly praiseworthy in adaptation actions. Varieties of indigenous, locally-led, and climate-smart adaptation practices are adopted in different degrees by the farmers for tackling diversified and uncertain climatic behavior.

Agriculture research institutes have invented different stress (flood, drought, short duration, salinity, lodging tolerance, etc.) tolerant rice and non-rice crop varieties, which need further awareness building and popularization to extend the technologies across the country. Yield gaps between research and fields are reported in the majority of the places, which are making these varieties non-attractive to farmers. Therefore, emphasis is raised for integrated and holistic research coordinated with BARI, BINA, SRDI, etc., to develop more strengthened HYV stress-tolerant cultivars reducing yield gaps. Supporting extension services, market and supply chain, expansion of e-commerce, and integrated pest and diseases management are recommended. A comprehensive investigation also suggests developing new stress-tolerant rice and non-rice crop varieties considering emerging climate extremes like heat or cold.

NAP recommends developing these adaptation practices further. NAP also encourages introducing four crop-based cropping patterns developed by BARI to increase cropping intensity from 192% to 400%. Increasing water use efficiency through CSA techniques such as AWD, buried pipe, mulching, smart metering, etc., is highly encouraged. Hands-on Ranisalut, Dud Kumar, Sadamota, lalmota, laxmibilash, Rajasail, Shitta, Brindamoni, Shitabhog, Kachra, Bashful, Benapol, etc.; Zero tillage cultivation and rainwater harvesting in coastal saline areas; mini pond for supplementary irrigation during drought spells, drip irrigation with mulch in the raised bed, use crop harvester for early harvesting in haor areas; Kuni method for small scale irrigation; Mulching with the raised bed; pyramid method for the tideaffected lands and vegetable in Gher; floating cultivation and Sarjan technology could be widely extended in the coastal water stagnant areas; nuts and coffee in Chattogram hill tracts, diagonal Jhum cultivation, etc. NAP recommends developing these adaptation practices further. NAP also encourages introducing four crop-based cropping patterns developed by BARI to increase cropping intensity from 192% to 400%. Increasing water use efficiency through CSA techniques such as AWD, buried pipe, mulching, smart metering, etc., is highly encouraged. Hands-on demonstration on stress-tolerant cultivars farming, mechanization, use of the advisory message of agro-met services is mandatorily recommended to support boosting agriculture production for ensuring food and nutrition security.