Vol. 11, Special Issue 9 (2022)

Author(s):
Deepali Suryawanshi, Shobhana Gupta and Shrishti Bilaiya

Abstract:
The Agricultural sector is the main occupation for most of the rural peoples especially for developing countries like India however, their agricultural production and livelihood tangled with climatic conditions. The climate change is one the biggest challenge for the farmers in achieving the sustainable agricultural production in India particularly Madhya Pradesh state. The farmer level assessment in choice of climate information and their adaptation strategies with objective of understand how different sources of climate information and their influences on adaptations strategies at farm household level. The present studied carried out in Chhindwara district of M.P. state was selected purposively, the multistage random sampling technique employed for the present study each 40 farmers were selected from each block, totally 240 respondents. The findings shows that majority of the respondents get the information from KVKs and also electronic media (Radio and television) also helps in disseminating the information with respect to adaptation strategies. The appropriate policies measures should be framed with respect to in strengthening KVKs by capacity buildings and the government should resolve the issues with respect to delaying in releasing insurance compensations to the farmers and also payment of prescribed sum insured amount.