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Present study was conducted during 2021-22 in four NICRA implementing districts of Madhya Pradesh. Main aim of the study was to know the knowledge level of NICRA beneficiaries regarding climate resilient technologies being advocated by the scientist’s implementing NICRA project in selected Villages. A survey was conducted among randomly selected 300 NICRA beneficiaries with the help of an interview schedule. The findings of the study conclude that knowledge level of respondents benefiting by NICRA has a significant relationship with selected profile characteristics and it also shows that majority of the NICRA farmers (63.0 %) had a medium level knowledge on climate resilient technologies followed by low (23.7 %) and high (13.3 %).Hence there is a need to strengthen capacity building activities targeted to improve the knowledge and skills of adopt climate resilient agricultural technologies for sustainable agriculture. (Randhir Singh et al. (2014).

Livestock keeping provides an assured income to the farmers of Bundelkhand region as it is more reliable than crop husbandry. The study was conducted in five districts of Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh (India) in 2014-15. Total 200 respondents were interviewed. Respondents had highest knowledge about the item names of leguminous and non-leguminous roughages. It was ranked first followed by fodder requirement and cropping scheme preparation based on number of animals, and importance of different roughages for animal health was ranked third. The highest adoption was found for the practices for which respondents had highest knowledge. The highest constraints were related to technology transfer (83.85%) followed by constraints related to farmers purchasing capacity (63%) and some unavoidable factors (58.1%). Thus by addressing the issues of knowledge, adoption and constraints, the fodder production in the region can be enhanced and the farmers will get another assured source of income from livestock keeping.

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