A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTATION STRATEGIES FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AMONG THE FARMERS OF HYDERABAD KARNATAKA REGION
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2019-09-11
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU
Abstract
The present study was carried out in the six districts viz. Ballari, Raichur, Koppal,
Yadgiri, Kalaburagi and Bidar of Hyderabad- Karnataka Region of Karnataka state
during 2018-19 to critically analyse the vulnerability and adaptation strategies for climate
change. The total sample constituted 180 farmers comprising of 90 paddy growers and 90
redgram growers. The results revealed that among the six districts Yadagir (0.64)
belonged to very high degree of vulnerability to climate change whereas, Kalburagi
(0.45), Koppal (0.19) and Raichur (0.25) belonged to low vulnerability category. Overall
vulnerability index for farmer level results were visualized that most (36.67 %) of the
paddy growers were belonged to severely vulnerability category. Whereas in case of
redgram grower’s most of them (35.56 %) belonged to moderately vulnerable section.
Overall adaptation strategies adopted among the paddy growers resulted that less than
half (48.89 %) of the respondents belonged to medium level category followed by less
than one third (27.78 %) of them belonged to high level category and finally almost one
fourth (23.33 %) of them belonged to low level category. whereas, overall adaptation
strategies among Redgram growers. 37.78 per cent of the respondents belonged to high
level category followed by 32.22 per cent of them belonged to medium level category.
Both paddy and redgram growers were having significant negative relationship between
adaptation strategies and their vulnerability. It implies that as increase in the adoption
level of the farmers it will reduce their vulnerability to climatic variation.