STUDY IDENTIFYING THE CONSTRAINTS FACED BY FARMERS DURING ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN VIJAYAPUR DISTRICT OF NORTHERN KARNATAKA

RAVINDRA JAMADAR¹*, S.V. HALAKATTI², S.K. CHANDRAKALA^3
1Department of Agricultural Extension Education, University of Agricultural Sciences, Krishinagar, Dharwad, 580005, Karnataka, India
²Department of Agricultural Extension Education, University of Agricultural Sciences, Krishinagar, Dharwad, 580005, Karnataka, India
³Department of Agricultural Extension Education, University of Agricultural Sciences, Krishinagar, Dharwad, 580005, Karnataka, India
* Corresponding Author : ravindra4184@gmail.com

Received : 10-11-2023     Accepted : 28-12-2023     Published : 30-12-2023
Volume : 15     Issue : 12       Pages : 12790 - 12791
Int J Agr Sci 15.12 (2023):12790-12791

Keywords : Market price, Processing unit, Inputs, Post harvest technology
Academic Editor : Kashyapkumar M. Gojiya, Rajan Singh, Dr Seher Dirican
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Department of Agricultural Extension Education, University of Agricultural Sciences, Krishinagar, Dharwad, 580005, Karnataka, India
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

In this study, Attempt has been made to identifying the constraints faced by farmers during adaptation to climate change in Vijayapur district of Northern Karnataka. Based on the existence of high range of variability in rainfall and temperature (since 40 years), the district taluks were selected, accordingly the taluks selected were Bijapur and Sindagi. From each of the selected taluks five villages were selected randomly. By applying simple random sampling technique 150 respondents were selected for the study. The objective of the study revealed that, In recent days farmers are facing lot of problems in their farming, it may be climatic aberration, high input cost, low market price for their produce and their situational conditions are restricting them to take up any adjustments in their farming due to climatic aberrations. With these background efforts has been made to know the constraints experienced by farmers to initiate the mitigating strategies to cope up with ill effects of climate change. The information on the constraints experienced by farmers was collected by identifying major aspects required for profitable farming, revealed that, major constraints faced by farmers to take up adaptation measures to overcome ill effects of climate change were. Higher cost of the agricultural inputs (Rank I). non availability of inputs in time (seeds, plant protection chemicals, fertilizers etc), (Rank I) were rated as major constraints, followed by difficult to work in the field due to severe temperature, (Rank II). Low price for the produce in the market was ranked as (Rank III), followed by lack of knowledge about post harvest technology, (Rank IV),lack of knowledge about processing of different crops, (Rank V),lack of storage facility in the villages,(VI), absence of processing unit in the village, (Rank VII) and, Lack of knowledge regarding appropriate adaptations (Rank VIII), Lack of information about long term climate change (Rank IX), and were other constraints expressed by farmers in the order of their experience

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