Abstract
Climate change issues are affecting the lives and livelihoods of the farming community in our state. With majority of our rural population dependent on farming, the need of the hour is to create awareness among farmers on climate-resilient farm technologies and make them adopt them. So, a study was conducted in the Erumapatty block of Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu to study the awareness and adoption of climate-resilient farm technologies. The findings of this study revealed that majority of the respondents (68.33 per cent) had high level of awareness on climate-resilient farm technologies. With regard to adoption, majority (60.00 per cent) had medium level of adoption on climate-resilient farm technologies. On crop production and protection climate resilient farm technologies, namely drought-resilient varieties, Intercropping, Identification and use of short-duration varieties, drought-resilient fodder crops, Community nursery as a contingency measure for delayed planting, IPDM and PPFM to combat drought condition in small onion majority of the farmers in the study area are aware of it and adopt it in this study area.
Highlights
Climate remains the foremost factor for doing farming and rainfall plays a significant role in agriculture
There arises a need for creating awareness and adoption of climate-resilient farm technologies among the farming community suited to the livelihood needs of the farming community
Awareness is a foremost factor for the adoption of innovations
Summary
Climate remains the foremost factor for doing farming and rainfall plays a significant role in agriculture. The present climate change-related issues like prolonged droughts, aberrant rainfall, floods and cyclones, changes in diurnal variations of temperature are affecting the production, productivity and livelihoods of small and marginal farmers, farm laborers creating a negative impact on the economy of our nation. There arises a need for creating awareness and adoption of climate-resilient farm technologies among the farming community suited to the livelihood needs of the farming community. Keeping this in view, a study was undertaken to assess the awareness and adoption of climate-resilient farm technologies in crop production and protection in Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Free) 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
