VULNERABILITY OF FARMERS’DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE CENTRAL DRY ZONE OF KARNATAKA – A CRITICAL ANALYSIS
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2019-09-05
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU
Abstract
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.