Women agripreneurship development became an essential part of human resource development. It makes the women financially independent and enhances the self esteem of them. The present study has been conducted with the objective to know the extent of adoption of agricultural enterprises by women agripreneurs of Coastal Odisha and it also determine climatic constraints. The study has been conducted in two districts of Odisha that are Balasore and Jagatsinghpur. Total 210 women agripreneurs were included in the study. Total sample size for the present study was 210. Result shows that in the research area Crop production enerprise is the highly adopted enterprise with a mean score of 2.00 and gap percentage of 33.34 where the fishery enterprise is the least adopted enterprise with a mean score of 1.19 and gap percentage of 60.15. Among the constraints incidence of flood and cyclone emerged as the main constraint.
Over the years climate change has become a global issue and its impact on agriculture has a distressful effect on the production of food grains and the lives of the growers. Therefore, in this fast-evolving world being aware of the rapid changes has become the necessity of the hour. And keeping in view the present condition this study had been conducted in the Ganjam District of Odisha to understand the extent of awareness of Climate Resilient Agricultural Practices. A total of 200 male and female respondents,100 each respectively were selected for the study. The findings revealed that most of the respondents i.e. 68.00 per cent male and 64.00 per cent female were partially aware, though it is also seen that (20.00%) female and (13.00%) male was unaware of climate-resilient agricultural practices which is evident that more females are unaware regarding the issues. Further, it was observed that Education, Information Source Utilization, Land Holding, and Type of family have a significant and positive relationship with the awareness of female respondents. The findings of this research would focus on creating more awareness among the people regarding the impacts of climate change and the benefits of adopting climate-resilient agricultural practices.
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