A Study on Awareness Levels and Adaptation Strategies for Climate Variability among Farmers

DOI: 10.22161/ijeab/1.2.13

Keyword: Conservation agriculture, Crop insurance, capacity building.

Abstract: Climate change has become a severe threat to the development and communities around the globe are already experiencing the sudden impacts. It is also being assumed that climate change will have significant negative impacts on agricultural productivity .In this respect 120 farmers were interviewed as respondents to explore the climate variability/change awareness and farmers mitigation strategies. This study was conducted in Rangareddy district of Telangana .Three mandals were selected randomly .From each mandal two villages and from each village 20 farmers were selected randomly .Total number of respondents are 120 Findings of the study indicated that farmers’ awareness regarding climate variability was very poor they were just having knowledge on behalf of their farming experience. Varied response was seen regarding causes of climate change. In addition, adaptations of mitigation strategies such as natural resource management, water harvesting, crop diversification migration to less weather prone area and usage of weather resistant varieties were almost negligible. Results showed that out of 15 adaptation strategies, micro irrigation ranked first among farm adaptive measures, while crop insurance has ranked as least utilized. Conservation agriculture could be the most viable strategy. Farmers have to utilize their existing resources in judicious ways. It is suggested on the basis of findings that role of extension field staff should be diversified. Farmers need capacity building regarding conservation agriculture. Moreover, it is dire need to popularize climate change and its adaptation through effective media campaign.

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Dr. Ch. Srilatha Vani, Dr. P. B. Pradeep kumar et al."A Study on Awareness Levels and Adaptation Strategies for Climate Variability among Farmers ". International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology(ISSN: 2456-1878),vol 1, no. 2, 2016, pp.190-194 AI Publications doi:10.22161/ijeab/1.2.13

Dr. Ch. Srilatha Vani, Dr. P. B. Pradeep kumar, P.(2016).A Study on Awareness Levels and Adaptation Strategies for Climate Variability among Farmers . International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology(ISSN: 2456-1878).1(2), 190-194.10.22161/ijeab/1.2.13

Dr. Ch. Srilatha Vani, Dr. P. B. Pradeep kumar, P.(2016).A Study on Awareness Levels and Adaptation Strategies for Climate Variability among Farmers . International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology(ISSN: 2456-1878).1(2), pp.190-194.

Dr. Ch. Srilatha Vani, Dr. P. B. Pradeep kumar. 2016."A Study on Awareness Levels and Adaptation Strategies for Climate Variability among Farmers ". International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology(ISSN: 2456-1878).1(2):190-194.Doi:10.22161/ijeab/1.2.13

Dr. Ch. Srilatha Vani, Dr. P. B. Pradeep kumar."A Study on Awareness Levels and Adaptation Strategies for Climate Variability among Farmers ", International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology,vol.1,no. 2, pp.190-194,2016.

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