In order to maintain output in the face of major environmental variations, an agricultural production system that is both flexible and robust is essential. Despite the fact that Indian farmers have developed a wide variety of coping mechanisms over the years, none of them have proven to be an effective response strategy in the face of both the increasing frequency and severity of extreme events and the slow but steady shifts in climate parameters such as surface temperature increases, shifts in rainfall patterns, higher evapotranspiration rates, and deteriorating soil moisture conditions. In order to make Indian farming more resistant to climate change, it is vital that scientists and farmers work together to find solutions. In addition, the Mission would work to protect India's agricultural heritage in order to use indigenous knowledge to implement in-situ conservation of genetic resources for use in NRM.