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ThesisItem Embargo IMPACT OF VILLAGE ADOPTION PROGRAMME OF UAS, BANGALORE(University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, 2023-03-02) SHRIDHAR RONIHAL; SHANKARA, M. H.The study was conducted in Tumkur and Bangalore Rural districts of Karnataka during the year 2021-2022. In each district adopted and non-adopted villages were located where Village Adoption Programmed has been implemented by UAS, Bangalore through respective ’KVK. From each village 30 respondents were selected randomly making a total sample of 120 and data was collected through personal interview schedule. The results noticed that, in adopted village of Tumkur district calculated Z values for ragi (2.99), red gram (2.59) and dairy (3.89) practices were significant at 0.01 level of probability. Whereas in adopted village of Bangalore Rural district calculated Z values for ragi (2.83), red gram (2.74) practices found to be significant at 0.01 level of probability. While, dairy practices (2.40) were significant at 0.05 level of probability. Hence, significant change in impact level of farmers before and after implementation of Village Adoption Programme in both adopted villages was confirmed. In adopted villages education, farming experience, training received, extension contact, innovativeness, social participation, mass media exposure, market orientation, achievement motivation, risk orientation, scientific orientation, extension participation were significantly related to impact level of the respondents. Majority of the respondents encountered constraints like high fertilizer costs, involvement of middlemen in marketing system, delay in announcement of MSP by government. Major suggestions by respondents are provision of fertilizers and pesticides at high subsidized rates, provision of MSP by government at the time of harvesting period, measures to refill the water tanksThesisItem Open Access VULNERABILITY OF FARMERS’DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE CENTRAL DRY ZONE OF KARNATAKA – A CRITICAL ANALYSIS(UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU, 2019-09-05) SHANKARA, M. H.; Shivamurthy, M.The present study was conducted during2018-19 in the Central Dry Zone (Zone- IV) of Karnataka state. A sample of 150 respondents were randomly selected from five taluks and 25 villages of four districts. The scale on vulnerability to climate change was developed for the study and data were collected through personal interview method.The results show that 0.186, 0.226, 0.224, 0.220 and 0.241 were the Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI) values of Arsikere, Kadur, Tiptur, Chiknayakanahalli and Challakere taluks, respectively. The overall CVI value of all the taluks was 0.218 indicating all taluks were severely vulnerable to climate change. Irrespective of land holdings all (marginal, small and big) farmers were severely vulnerable to climate change (CVI: > 0.218). Variables like education, family size, family head, farming experience, family income, irrigation potential, credit orientation, mass media exposure, innovative proneness, extension participation and extension agency contact had a negative and significant relationship with Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI) at 5 per cent level whereas, risk orientation, material possession, management orientation, organization participation, scientific orientation and cosmopoliteness had a negative and significant relationship with the Climate Vulnerability Index of farmers at 1 per cent level of significance. About 28 per cent of members of marginal family were migrated to other places followed by small (20%) and big (16 %) farmers due to adverse effect of climate change. Majority of the farmers have established dairy (74.67%) followed by poultry (18.67%) and poultry with dairy (11.33%) as alternative sources of income. Major constraints faced by farmers to take up adaptation measures to overcome adverse effects of climate change were non availability of labours for timely farm operations which ranks first followed by lack of information about long term climate change. Majority of the farmers suggested that government has to take necessary steps to fill the water bodies in villages followed by providing more number of drip and sprinkler irrigation facilities to farm families.