Household Level Assessment of Climate Change Vulnerability of North Bank Plains Zone Farmers of Assam

Abstract

The study was carried out to assess the vulnerability of farmers to climate change in northbank plains zone of Assam. For this 2 districts were selected randomly from the northbank plains zone of Assam i.e., Sonitpur and Udalguri. A household level survey was carriedout with the selected farmers to obtain the primary data. For this, total 120 farmers wereselected from 6 different villages through proportionate random sampling. Vulnerabilityindex was worked out by considering 10 different indicators. Findings revealed that 69.17per cent of farmers belonged to medium vulnerability category followed by 16.67 per centand 14.17 per cent in high and low vulnerability category respectively. The meanvulnerability score was 0.455 indicating that, on an average, respondents had mediumvulnerability to climate change. Most of the respondents are belonged to medium category.