ION OF KARNATAKA:-Water stress is becoming the leading constraint on Indian agriculture. Groundwater resources are being fast-depleted and rainfall disruptions are increasingly frequent. Understanding how farmers adapt to this dual challenge is crucial for India’s agricultural growth, and transformation.The study seeks to investigate the combined impacts of persistent drought and continuing groundwater depletion in Karnataka on various household outcomes, and the adaptation STRATEGIES adopted by farmers.Early results indicate that farmers with access to irrigation/groundwater are better able to adapt and cope with the threats posed by multi-year droughts and continued groundwater depletion.__________________________ADAPTATION OF UTTARAKHAND.High up in the tough terrains of Uttarakhand, located are the remote villages of Rudraprayag. In these upper Himalayas, where the land used to be usually covered with about a feet of snow upto a decade ago, climate change has decimated the amount of snowfall to hardly about 6 inches, which too melts away quickly. Although more bare land is AVAILABLE now for FARMING, it is still usually deprived of nutrients to support the cultivation of green vegetables or the finest variety of rice. The farming community is usually restricted to GROWING wheat, millets, and tuberous roots such as turmeric. The temperature, soil condition and traditional methods of farming here do not allow for profitable farming during winter which runs from December to February.As the temperatures continue to rise, the farmers are working hard to make ends meet. Trees of fruit crops such as malta orange that once frequently dotted the slopes of these HILLS, have now almost disappeared.This is where interventions by agriculture experts can infuse a fresh lease of life in the farming practices by way of introducing new crops in the ecologically sensitive Himalayas.