Farmers’ perception about climate change and strategies to cope-up with climate change in Uttar Pradesh
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2016-12
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G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand)
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Climate change has been recognized globally as the most pressing critical issue affecting the mankind survival. It is expected to have serious environmental, economic and social impacts on Indian agriculture. Perception of the farmers is also changing with the change in climate. They are more concerned about the climate change as it is directly or indirectly affecting the crop production. Many studies discovered that climate change has more negative impact than positive impact. In several states of India, situation has compelled the poor farmers to commit suicide. To overcome agricultural risk, farmers have adopted different coping strategies. Hence, a study entitled “Farmers’ Perception about Climate Change and Strategies to Cope-up with Climate Change in Uttar Pradesh State” was designed to study the perception of farmers about climate change and to develop more efficient coping strategies for tackling the adverse situation beforehand. The state of Uttar Pradesh state was the universe of the study. Out of 75 districts, two districts, viz. Hardoi and Lucknow were selected purposively. One block from each of the districts was selected purposively; namely, Kothawa and Bakshi ka Talab from Hardoi and Lucknow, respectively. Two villages were purposively selected from the selected blocks, viz. Janakinagar and Sair Bahadurpur from Kothawa block and Bhauli and Dhinauri from Bakshi ka Talab block. 30 farmers were randomly selected from each village, thus forming a total of 120 respondents. A structured interview schedule was designed and pre-tested by the researcher to collect the data. Analytical research design was adopted and statistical techniques like mean, frequency, percentage, standard deviation, t-test and multiple regression were applied to carry out the purposeful interpretation of the collected data and fulfill the objectives of the study. The findings of the study revealed that maximum number of respondents were young-aged (62.5 percent), illiterate (30.83 percent), males (98.33 percent), had medium family size (78.34 percent) and farming as occupation (88.33 percent). Majority of the respondents had low farming experience (85.83 percent), medium land holding (47.50 percent), low annual income (56.67 percent), high level of economic motivation (62.5 percent), medium level of scientific orientation (71.65 percent), low level of mass media exposure (60 percent), medium level of information seeking behavior (91.66 percent), low level knowledge about coping strategies (56.67 percent) and high perception about climate change (54.17 percent). Occupation had highly positive significant relationship with perception whereas age, education, mass media exposure and ownership, knowledge about coping strategies and farming experience had a positive significant relationship. Gender, family size, landholding, annual income, decision making ability, scientific orientation, information seeking behavior and only economic motivation had negative non-significant relationship. Coefficient of determination value (R2) was 0.43 that means there was 43 percent variation in the dependent variable due all independent variable. Whereas age and knowledge about coping strategies were highly significantly related with farmers perception about climate change and education and mass media exposure were significantly related with perception about climate change.
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