Assessment of Relationship between Profile Characteristics of NICRA Beneficiaries and their Attitude towards Climate-resilient Technologies

Abstract

To mitigate the climatic risk involved in the agriculture system, a shift from traditional cropping practices to climate-resilient practices of NICRA Project, is a strategy to increase farmers' income as well as agricultural sustainability. It reduces the risk to farmers from crop failure due to climate variations, by providing alternative suitable climate-resilient technologies. It also helps in the conservation of natural resources, increases food and nutritional security and helps in poverty alleviation by providing employment opportunities to the farmers. The attitude of farmers plays a crucial role in adopting any new technology. This paper analyzes the factors influencing the attitude of farmers towards climate-resilient technologies of the NICRA project in the Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. We studied the determinants influencing attitude towards climate-resilient technologies by using the primary data. The ex-post facto research design was used and a sample size of 60 respondents was selected using a simple random sampling technique. Out of 14 variables, education, social participation, landholding, innovativeness, mass media exposure, extension contacts and trainings attended had a positive and significant association with farmer’s attitude towards climate-resilient technologies.

National innovations in climate resilient agriculture (NICRA): The reservoir of resilience enhancement

“…Perishable products were previously sold at low prices, but value addition improved their economic status (Medhi et al, 2018) [11] . Factors such as education, social participation, landholding, innovativeness, mass media exposure, extension contacts, and attending training were found to have a positive and significant correlation with farmers' attitudes towards climate-resilient technologies (Pradhan et al, 2021) [21] . The implementation of the NICRA project has brought about significant changes in various aspects such as education, social participation, expenditure pattern, housing pattern, employment opportunities, occupation, material possession, annual savings, land possession, cropping pattern, income, and productivity of the beneficiaries (Mohokar et 2019) [13] .…”

Participatory Evaluation of Effectiveness of Farmer-Led Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in Eastern Uttar Pradesh

“…Farmers observed improved yields due to the use of high yielding varieties which were short-duration varieties of paddy and wheat, allowing them to go for more vegetables in the cropping system and enabling crop diversification which ultimately helps in improving overall crops yield. The study by Harikrishna et al, (2019) mentioned that adoption of climate-resilient practice increased the availability of irrigation water, usage of improved varieties and input use efficiency which will increase the quantity of produce.…”

Adaptation Methods Practiced by Farmers in Response to Perceived Climate Change in Andhra Pradesh

“…The temperature will boom by means 1.7 to 4.78 °C by 2030-2080 with an increase in precipitation from 1.2 to 11.3 per cent influencing the agricultural and water sectors. Under medium-time period (2020)(2021)(2022)(2023)(2024)(2025)(2026)(2027)(2028)(2029)(2030)(2031)(2032)(2033)(2034)(2035)(2036)(2037)(2038)(2039) weather alternate situation, crop yield is projected to lessen through 4.5 to 9 per cent, relying at the significance and distribution of global warming (Harikrishna et al, 2019). The solid drifts in climate change are evident, the likelihood of further changes occurring and the increasing measure of potential climate impacts give urgency to addressing agricultural adaptation practices more consistently (Chunera & Amardeep, 2018).…”