VULNERABILITY OF FARMERS’DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE CENTRAL DRY ZONE OF KARNATAKA – A CRITICAL ANALYSIS
| dc.contributor.advisor | Shivamurthy, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | SHANKARA, M. H. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-06T08:36:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-10-06T08:36:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-09-05 | |
| dc.description.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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | Th-12465 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810152555 | |
| dc.keywords | CLIMATE CHANGE, FARMER, MANAGEMENT | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | English | en_US |
| dc.pages | 288 | en_US |
| dc.publisher | UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU | en_US |
| dc.sub | Agricultural Extension | en_US |
| dc.theme | CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE CENTRAL DRY ZONE | en_US |
| dc.these.type | Ph.D | en_US |
| dc.title | VULNERABILITY OF FARMERS’DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE CENTRAL DRY ZONE OF KARNATAKA – A CRITICAL ANALYSIS | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |