Climate Resilient Technologies Research is being carried with aim to enhance resilience of Tamil Nadu agriculture to climate change and climate variability through strategic research and technology demonstration. Strategic research on adaption to progressive climate change covers crops, livestock, fisheries and natural resource management. Technology demonstration focuses on participatory evaluation of location specific interventions in vulnerable districts of Tamil Nadu to enable farmers cope with current climate variability.  Reduce vulnerability to drought, pests, diseases and other climate-related risks and shocks; and improve capacity to adapt and grow in the face of longer-term stresses like shortened seasons and erratic weather patterns.  Pursue lower emissions for each calorie or kilo of food produced, avoid deforestation from agriculture and identify ways to absorb carbon out of the atmosphere are few initiatives carried out in the research centres of TNAU.