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

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



 Dr. Ch. Srilatha Vani, Dr. P. B. Pradeep kumar



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. 



10.22161/ijeab/1.2.13



http://ijeab.com/upload_document/issue_files/16%20IJEAB-AUG-2016-3-A%20Study%20on%20Awareness%20Levels%20and%20Adaptation%20Strategies%20for%20Climate%20Variability%20among%20Farmers.pdf



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