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Constraints Experienced and Suggestions by Farming Community in Adaptation to Climate Change in Karnataka: An Economic Analysis

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Title Constraints Experienced and Suggestions by Farming Community in Adaptation to Climate Change in Karnataka: An Economic Analysis
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Creator Ravi Dupdal
B.L. Patil
 
Subject Climate change, Constraints in adaptation, Descriptive statistics, Garrett ranking technique, Adaptability measures
 
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Climatic variability has the potential to affect countries highly dependent upon
agriculture, resulting in food shortages, among other consequences. Therefore, people
who depend on farming will require a myriad of adaptation strategies to mitigate
adverse effects of climate change and maintain the livelihoods of farm families.
Farmers practice variety of adaptability measures to mitigate and preclude the effect of
climate change in agriculture. However, farmers come across varieties of constraints
in adaptation in response to climate change. The paper reported the results of 240
farmers of northern Karnataka who are experiencing various constraints in adaptation
in response to climate change and also enlisted various suggestions in order to negate
the barriers to climate change. Descriptive statistics and Garrett ranking technique
were employed for analyzing various socio-economic characteristics and constraints
experienced by farmers in adaptation in response to climate change. The results shows
that demographic composition was predominantly dominated by old age groups
constituting 50.42 % of surveyed farmers followed by middle aged category (29.58%)
and rest are young age groups (20.00%). Higher proportions of farmers (58.33%) were
members of various social group participation. Little more than 1/3rd of farmers
involved in off-farm employment in the region. The main barriers to adaptation
includes lack of knowledge and information about climate change and adaptation
strategies (GS: 78.09), lack of access to timely weather forecast information (GS:
72.88) and timely availability of farm inputs (GS: 65.44) are attained I, II and III ranks
respectively. Majority of the respondents (75.00 %) suggested that weather forecast
should be accurate and available in time, whereas 69.58 per cent and 68.33 per cent of
farmers suggests that Government support during natural calamities and timely supply
of farm inputs on subsidized rate is necessary in order to mitigate negative impact of
climate change.
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Date 2020-06-23T11:37:34Z
2020-06-23T11:37:34Z
2019-02-10
 
Type Research Paper
 
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/37360
 
Language English
 
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