Mohapatra, B.P.Patro, Angelina2024-05-142024-05-142023-03-21https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810208943Globally, climate change has become a major threat and India’s agrarian-based economy largely depends on the onset of the monsoon and its further behaviour, which is adversely influenced by the consequences of climatic changes. Keeping these challenges in view, climate resilient agricultural practices are the approach to use the existing natural resources in order to achieve long-term higher productivity and farm income under climatic variabilities giving opportunities for gender involvement and understanding their perception in adapting the situation. Considering the above context, the study entitled “A gender based study on adaptation of climate-resilient agricultural practices in Odisha” was conducted purposively in two villages namely Chikarada and Sasanpadar of Ganjam District of Odisha with a sample of 100 farmers and 100 farm women selected randomly making a total of 200 respondents. Mean score, gap percentage, ranking, correlation and t-test were used to analyze the data. From the study, it was evinced that farmers (MS=2.89) and farm women (MS=2.82) were aware about the prolonged drought and crop failures as the major effects of climate change. Among all the climate resilient agricultural practices, farmers were aware about INM (MS=2.93), AWD method (MS=2.89), line sowing and transplanting (MS=2.94) and application of neem oil (MS=2.90) while the farm women were aware about the green manuring (MS=2.90), AWD method (MS=2.92), alterations in planting time (MS=2.90) and seed treatment (MS=2.90). Further, it was observed that farmers were mostly involved in formation of graded bunding (MS=2.84), altering the planting time (MS=2.90), and setting up pheromone traps (MS=2.90) whereas farm women were involved in water recycling (MS=2.85), line sowing and transplanting (MS=2.92) and application of neem oil (MS=2.92) among all the climate resilient agricultural practices. The adoption index revealed that the crop management practices were highly adopted by both the farmers (46.50%) and the farm women (38.55%) while the pest and disease management practices were least adopted among them. The farmers and farm women had adopted INM (MS=2.88), AWD method (MS=2.70), line sowing and transplanting (MS=2.93) and green manuring (MS=2.83) among all the CRA practices. Overall, the risk orientation among both farmers and farm women were found to be at medium level for all the CRA practices, but for crop management practices the farmers experienced low risk while farm women experienced high risk for pest and disease management practices. The farmers faced constraints about adequate and timely information on weather forecasts (MS=2.80) and poor information on pest and disease management (MS=2.90) but the farm women faced problems on unavailability of good quality seeds in planting season (MS=2.88) and lack of storage (MS=2.92). Overall, the correlation findings indicated that if we emphasize on the farming experience, participation in training, social participation, contact with development agents, information source utilization of both the farmers and farm women then this would boost the awareness, participation and adoption of the climate resilient agricultural practices.EnglishThesis