“Knowledge and Adaptation on Climate variability among Farming community of Bundelkhand region, Uttar Pradesh”
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2023-08-09
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE BANDA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE & TECHNOLOGY, BANDA-210001, UTTAR PRADESH (INDIA)
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The present study was conducted on "Knowledge and Adaptation on Climate Variability among
farming community of Bundelkhand region, Uttar Pradesh”. The Exploratory and Analytic research design
was used in the present study. The Banda, Hamirpur, and Mahoba Districts were purposively selected. Two
blocks from each district and 2 village from each block were selected. A total of 6 blocks and 12 villages were
selected. From each selected village, 15 respondents were selected randomly. Thus, a total of 180 respondents
were selected as a sample for the present study. The results revealed that majority of the respondents belonged
to the middle-age category, joint families, and medium-sized families, engaged in dairy farming along with
crop farming, belonged to medium income category, medium herd size, possess indigenous cows, medium
milk production category, medium milk consumption and medium milk sale category. The majority of the
research participants (61.67%) felt there had been a decreasing annual rainfall amount, the overall knowledge
level of respondents revealed that the majority of the respondents (52.22%) had medium-level knowledge of
climate variability. The results of the exposition index reveal a higher value (0.82), which shows that farmers
‘of Banda district (D1) livelihoods are critically exposed to climate change and its induced risks. Findings
further report that the exposition index of the D2 (Hamirpur district) has a relatively higher value (0.73),
indicating a higher exposure to climate risks than the D3 (Mahoba district) 0.63. The calculated index score of
the susceptibility indicator revealed that D3 (0.83) has higher exposure to risks in the study area and represents
a critical value followed by D1 (0.76) and D2 (0.54), respectively. The index value of the adaptive capacity
indicator showed a critically high score (0.85) for D1 of the Bundelkhand region followed by D3 and D2 with
the index value of 0.82 and 0.63, respectively. The overall level of adoption of adaptation strategies revealed
that 40% of the respondents had a medium level of adoption of adaptation strategy followed by 36.11% of the
respondents had a low level of adoption of adaptation strategies of livestock farming to combat the climate
variability. Only 23.89% of the respondents had a high level of adoption of adaptation to overcome the vagaries
of climate variability. Binary logistic analysis revealed the Wald statistics were significant at a 1 percent level
for the explanatory variables influencing the adoption level of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies of
respondents to combat Climate Variability revealed that viz., Age while variables like Family size and Herd
size were significant at 5 percent level; Education was significant at 10 percent level. It was revealed that
illiterately, poor extension service on climate risk management, inadequate access to climate information and
poor reliability, non-availability of the insect-pest and disease tolerant varieties, high input cost due to change
in planting dates, Inadequate finance and credit facilities to meet out the labor requirement were the major
constraints in the study area.
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Ashish Yadav. (2024).“Knowledge and Adaptation on Climate variability among Farming community of Bundelkhand region, Uttar Pradesh” Thesis M.Sc. BANDA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE & TECHNOLOGY, BANDA-210001, UTTAR PRADESH (INDIA)