COMPARATIVE STUDY ON KNOWLEDGE AND PERCEPTION OF AGRO-MET ADVISORY SERVICE (AAS) ON CLIMATE CHANGE IN CHICKBALLAPUR DISTRICT
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COMPARATIVE STUDY ON KNOWLEDGE AND PERCEPTION OF AGRO-MET ADVISORY SERVICE (AAS) ON CLIMATE CHANGE IN CHICKBALLAPUR DISTRICT
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PREETHI
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Chandrashekhar, S. Vaster
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The present study was conducted in the chickballapur district of Karnataka during 2011-12 to compare the knowledge and perception of AAS and other farmers about climate change and also to identify the constraints experienced by them to take up recommended mitigation stratergies. Visible variation in rainfall, temperature, wind-speed, Relative Humidity was observed in this area, hence, these climate parameters were considered for the study. The findings revealed that, nearly 51.11 per cent of AAS farmers had high followed by medium (40%) and low (8.89%) levels of knowledge about climate change whereas 36.67 per cent of non-AAS farmers had medium followed by low (34.44%) and high (28.89%) levels of knowledge. The results of study indicate that, about 53.33 per cent of AAS farmers had medium followed by high (35.56 %) and low (11.11%) levels of perception. Nearly 68.89 per cent of non-AAS farmers had medium followed by low (17.78%) and high (13.33%) levels of perception about climate change. Independent variables like landholdings, cosmopoliteness, extension participation, mass media exposure, irrigation potential and scientific orientation were significantly associated with knowledge levels of AAS farmers and variables like landholdings, cosmopoliteness, extension participation and mass media exposure were significantly associated with knowledge levels of non-AAS farmers. Regarding the association of Independent variables with perception of climate change variables like landholdings, cosmopoliteness, extension participation, mass media exposure and farming-experience were significantly associated with AAS farmers’ perception and mass media exposure, farming experience and irrigation potential were significantly associated with non-AAS farmers perception. The tvalue obtained by comparing knowledge levels of AAS and non-AAS farmers was 7.86 and the value obtained by comparing perception was 3.19. It is seen that there was significant difference in the knowledge of AAS and non-AAS farmers indicating the effectiveness and need of Agro-met Advisory Services. The major constraints experienced by a farmers to initiate adaptation measures were lack of technical skills and capacities for adoption of technologies, lack of awareness and sensitization to the development and utilization of new technologies, nonavailability of timely inputs, lack of information about long term climate change, high cost in adoption of new technology, lack of extension services in technology dissemination and lack of investment capital and land tenure issues. |
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2016-12-05T13:17:33Z
2016-12-05T13:17:33Z 2012-07-23 |
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Thesis
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Th-10228
http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/89171 |
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en
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application/pdf
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University of Agricultural Sciences GKVK, Bangalore
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