Perspectives of Farmers on Effect of Climate Change on Agriculture and Livestock
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Date
2011
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UAS, Dharwad
Abstract
The study was conducted in Dharwad and Bijapur districts of Karnataka state
during 2011. Ex-post-Facto research design was followed for the conduct of the study.
The total sample for the present study was 150. The study was conducted with the
objectives of documenting farmers views on climate change, to find out the reasons
for climate change and to study the effect of climate change on agriculture and
livestock as felt by farmers. Frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation were
the statistical tools employed for the present study.
High majority (81.33%) of the respondents belonged to medium economic
motivation. All the respondents observed changes in quantity of rainfall and 98.67 per
cent noticed changes in the distribution pattern of the rains over the past 20 years.
Large majority (84.67%, 92.67%, and 94.00%) of the respondents expressed that the
distribution is unpredictable to the extent of variation of 67.66, 73.39 and 79.84 per
cent in kharif, rabi and summer seasons, respectively. High majority (90.00%) of the
respondents expressed negative impact with percent variation on hours of grazing
(42.00%) and hours of stall feeding (22.32%), respectively. High majority (90.00%)
of the farmers replaced traditional varieties like white sorghum, javari redgram and
jaidhar cotton varieties with high yielding verities having characteristics of short
duration and resistance to pests and diseases. Nearly two third (65.33%) of the
farmers changed their cropping pattern from mono cropping to diversified cropping
pattern.
High majority (86.00) of the farmers following practices like more hours of
grazing, growing green fodder during kharif and protecting straw by covering
polythene to avoid shortcoming of dry fodder. Nearly half of the farmers reduced
number of livestock and reared high milk yielding and drought resistant breeds. Thirty
per cent of the farmers replaced large ruminants (buffaloes and cows) with the small
ruminants (sheep and goat).
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Agricultural Extension Education