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Mr Horil Singh, a farmer from Rajapakkar village of Vaishali district in Bihar India, has been seeing fluctuations in rainfall pattern and temperature for almost a decade now. This has impacted his paddy and pulse produce to a large extent till a global initiative launched in 2010, to help small farmers in dealing with climate change, helped him in creating vertical drainage systems that let excess rainwater seep quickly back into a natural acquifer. Mr Vikas Chaudhary, a farmer from Karnal in Haryana India, has adopted conservation farming methods such as zero tillage, direct seeding and soil health-based fertiliser application for the last three years. Farmers like Singh and Chaudhary are being helped under this initiative. Farmers from around 40 villages are being trained through this method and 'climate smart' villages are being piloted in Bihar and Haryana. Many farmers in the two districts of Bihar and Maharashtra have been trained on the usage of technology such as increasing carbon content in the soil through agro forestry, manure management and optimum application of nitrogen through 'crop sensors device', which saves cost and keeps in check greenhouse gas emissions.