IMPACT OF CLIMATE RESILIENT TECHNOLOGIES ON SOCIO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF TRIBAL FARMERS

Abstract

The National Innovations on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) project was launched by ICAR in 2011. The Technology Demonstration Component of the project which is aimed at enhancing the resilience and adaptive capacity of the farmers to cope with the increasing climatic variability in different agro- ecosystems is implemented by Krishi Vigyan Kendra's spread across the country. Since the project has completed ten years, the investigation was undertaken with the objective to analyze the impact of climate resilient technologies on socio economic development of the tribal farmers. Khuntli and Amdha villages of Kaparada block of Gujarat state was selected purposively. From the list of the beneficiaries of both villages, forty farmers from each village were selected by simple random sampling technique. Thus, the sample comprised of 80 beneficiary farmers. Ex-post facto research design was used for the study. Statistical tools viz. mean, SD, and Z test were used to analyze the data. The data related to changes occurred after implementation of NICRA project revealed that as a result of adoption of climate smart technologies, significant improvements in the livelihood of the beneficiary farmers were observed due to increase in the overall income of the farmers per annum.