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Opinion of agricultural scientists and farmers regarding the effect of climate change on agriculture

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Title Opinion of agricultural scientists and farmers regarding the effect of climate change on agriculture
 
Creator Vikas Kumar
 
Contributor Dhaliwal, Ravinder Kaur
 
Subject climate, climatic change, crops, adaptation, irrigation, biological phenomena, productivity, land resources, marketing, diseases
 
Description The present study entitled ―Opinion of agricultural scientists and farmers regarding the effect of climate change on agriculture‖ was undertaken to study the awareness, opinion, adaptation and mitigation strategies of the selected agriculture scientists and farmers towards the effect of climate change on agriculture. The study provided suggestive measures for reducing the effect of climate change on agriculture. The study was undertaken by purposively selecting 138 agricultural scientists of College of Agriculture, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana and 12 Subject Matter Specialists from Krishi Vigyan Kendra from three selected districts of Punjab. A total of 270 farmers were selected from eighteen village of three selected districts of three agroclimatic zones. The data were collected by following questionnaire approach and interview method for scientists and farmers respectively. The result showed that all the scientists agreed to some extent that climate change reduces biological diversity while majority of them agreed to a great extent over changes in cropping pattern, additional stress on fragile systems in agriculture and effect on crop physiology as a result of climate change. Majority of the farmers opined to a great extent about the items such as increased incidence of pest and disease in crops, increase in intensive negative effect of cold wave on fruit and vegetable crops, reduction in vegetative cover and increased pest and disease incidence on crops as a result of climate change. Overall opinion of the scientists regarding effect of climate change revealed that it affects the agriculture to some extent. Majority of the scientists suggested the development of heat tolerant and insect, pests and disease resistant crop varieties, development of rainwater harvesting methods, afforestation, suitable cropping patterns, integrated farming system, adjustment in timings of field operations and no tillage or minimum tillage of agronomic practices. The adaptation strategies suggested by farmers included the use of water conservation techniques, afforestation and short duration crop varieties.
 
Date 2016-04-11T14:24:03Z
2016-04-11T14:24:03Z
2014
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/65424
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher PAU