**5. Biotechnology: a toolkit for climate resilient agriculture**

Considering the various direct and indirect impacts of climate change on food production and agriculture along with rapid deterioration of arable land and perplexity of rainfall patterns, all these factors triggering various abiotic stresses such as drought, heat stress and biotic stresses like pest and disease attacks, the sophisticated techniques laden biotechnology toolkit has potential to address these immense challenges of developing the stress tolerant food crop cultivars in this hour of need [57]. With population growing at rapid rate under threatening scenario of climate change, it is high time to shift resilience from conventional breeding along with fertilizers and pesticides to genomics-assisted crop improvement techniques in order to achieve more sustainable and efficient yield gains [58].
