Suggestions of Farmers to Mitigate the Ill Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture in Dharwad District of Karnataka, India (original) (raw)
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International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences, 2019
Climatic variability has the potential to affect countries highly dependent upon agriculture, resulting in food shortages, among other consequences. Therefore, people who depend on farming will require a myriad of adaptation strategies to mitigate adverse effects of climate change and maintain the livelihoods of farm families. Farmers practice variety of adaptability measures to mitigate and preclude the effect of climate change in agriculture. However, farmers come across varieties of constraints in adaptation in response to climate change. The paper reported the results of 240 farmers of northern Karnataka who are experiencing various constraints in adaptation in response to climate change and also enlisted various suggestions in order to negate the barriers to climate change. Descriptive statistics and Garrett ranking technique were employed for analyzing various socioeconomic characteristics and constraints experienced by farmers in adaptation in response to climate change. The results shows that demographic composition was predominantly dominated by old age groups constituting 50.42 % of surveyed farmers followed by middle aged category (29.58%) and rest are young age groups (20.00%). Higher proportions of farmers (58.33%) were members of various social group participation. Little more than 1/3 rd of farmers involved in off-farm employment in the region. The main barriers to adaptation includes lack of knowledge and information about climate change and adaptation strategies (GS: 78.09), lack of access to timely weather forecast information (GS: 72.88) and timely availability of farm inputs (GS: 65.44) are attained I, II and III ranks respectively. Majority of the respondents (75.00 %) suggested that weather forecast should be accurate and available in time, whereas 69.58 per cent and 68.33 per cent of farmers suggests that Government support during natural calamities and timely supply of farm inputs on subsidized rate is necessary in order to mitigate negative impact of climate change.
Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture: A Case of Farmers’ Perception in Rural Punjab, Pakistan
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M odernization of agriculture sector is necessitating as coping strategy to tackle climate change and food insecurity especially for developing world (FAO, 2015). However, it is observed that climate change is based on human activities and its stability is thoughtful concern (Davidson et al., 2018). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, 2012) confirmed that the year 2002 and 2003 were the warmest of the current century. It is obvious; climate change has direct or indirect Abstract | Climate change is a global issue and becoming severe day by day. Pakistan is developing country, which is also affected by climate change and has no proper resources to hand over these problems creating through change in climate. While Pakistan is country in which agriculture plays as a role of backbone for their economy because a sufficient amount of population connected direct or indirect to this sector. According to Davidson, humans for their improvement in quality life and economical purposes basically cause climate change. We can observe change in climate easily by increasing temperature and irregular pattern of rains. Agriculture and climate have strong relation with each other. So, the agriculture should develop continuously with ever growing population. However, crop productivity of major cereal crops is adversely affected due to weather changing conditions. Farmers have not appropriate resources to recover these gaps produced by climate changes. This thesis makes an attempt to check farmer awareness regarding climate. It also inspects the inferences of climate change on major cereal crops like wheat, maize and rice at district level. It is expected that majority of crops under consideration to be harmfully affected by increasing temperature and irregular rainfalls. It is also observed and categorized the sources through information are collected by farmers about changing in climate conditions. In this study, local adaption practices and strategies, private and government institutional support and efforts, national adaption policies and strategies are also surveyed at different scale.
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CONCERNS OF CLIMATE CHANGE FOR INDIAN AGRICULTURE
ABSRTACT: The very important environmental problems before the World as a whole and India in particular is climate change, which is very closely associated with the global warming. They are very important on the ground that they have number of evil consequences on more or less all the spheres of the environment. It is not only India, but all the countries have been facing from the evil impacts of the climate change. It is adversely affecting the segments of the environments such as atmosphere, land, water and living things. Besides this the climate change is also adversely affecting the productive activities and sectors in the economies of the number of countries in the world as whole. It is therefore climate change has become at this moment a very importantly environmental problem of the globe as whole. And in the era of globalization and liberalization all countries of world are very closely interlinked and inter connected with the each other and India cannot be an exception to it. Hence India also has been severely affecting from the evil consequences of the climate change. It is a well known fact that at this moment also India is an agricultural country with over dependence of the people on agriculture as a means of lively hood, a major source of employment and a major population living in rural areas, whose prime economic activity is agriculture. This demands to discuss the interconnections and linkages between climate change and agriculture in the context of India. The prime objective of the present paper is identifying the things of serious concerns of climate change for the Indian agriculture. The study is exclusively relied on the secondary data concerning agriculture as well as climate change for the latest period prominently. The study concludes that the climate change has created severe adverse impacts on agriculture and thereby things of serious concerns , which are necessary to be tackled with the joint efforts of the government policy and active participation of the people and the society as a whole.
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Farmers' perceptions and adaptation strategies to climate change in Punjab agriculture
Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2018
Climate change is affecting the performance of agriculture. Farmers are the hardest hit as they have to continuously respond to climate variations. In order to know the farmers' perceptions about climate change and the adaptation strategies the present study collected the primary data from 200 farmers from different agro-climatic zones of Punjab. Multinomial logit model was used to identify the factors affecting the adaptation of climate resilient technologies. The findings revealed that most of the farmers (77%) perceived decrease in seasonal rainfall while 53% of them perceived decrease in rainfall in rabi season. Majority of the farmers (83.5% in kharif and 93% in rabi) perceived that temperature is higher than before. The adaptation choices mostly practiced by sample farmers were laser levelling of the field and improvement in irrigation structures, which was adopted by 30 and 27% of total adoption respectively. The regression model discerned determinants affecting adaptation choices were, viz. age, education, farm size, perception on temperature and extension lectures. Adaptation to climate change is constrained by several factors such as lack of knowledge about technology, lack of finance and credit availability and inadequate trainings and demonstrations about the climate resilient technologies.