A Study of Farmers’ Awareness About Climate Change and Adaptation Practices in India

Rupan Raghuvanshi; Mohammad Aslam Ansari; Amardeep

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A Study of Farmers’ Awareness About Climate Change and Adaptation Practices in India

Rupan Raghuvanshi, Mohammad Aslam Ansari, Amardeep

Published in International Journal of Applied Agricultural Sciences (Volume 3, Issue 6)

Received: 17 October 2017 Accepted: 6 November 2017 Published: 5 December 2017

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Abstract

Agriculture is the backbone of Indian economy, and climate change significantly affects agriculture productivity. The present study was conducted in one district of Uttarakhand state in the North Himalayan region of India bordering Nepal and China. The study sample comprised 110 farmers selected by using simple random sampling. Study findings indicate that all the farmers were found to be aware of the climate change, and majority of them reported “erratic rainfall, diminishing agricultural yield and increase in temperature” as the indicators of climate change. The increasing industrialisation, overpopulation and deforestation’ were perceived by farmers to be the main causes of climate change. Further, most of the farmers reported crop failures, migration to other places and flooding’ as three major consequences (impact) of climate change. The study findings will help in preparing a roadmap for policy formulation as well as undertaking mitigation measures besides helping the agriculture extension agencies to design and plan locale specific adaptation strategies and agriculture development programmes.

Published in	International Journal of Applied Agricultural Sciences (Volume 3, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijaas.20170306.13
Page(s)	154-160
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Climate Change, Awareness About Climate Change, Climate and Hill Agriculture, Climate Change Adaptation, Farming in Mountain Ecosystem

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Rupan Raghuvanshi

Department of Agricultural Communication, Govind Ballabh, Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, India
Mohammad Aslam Ansari

Department of Agricultural Communication, Govind Ballabh, Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, India
Amardeep

Department of Agricultural Communication, Govind Ballabh, Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, India

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