Determinants influencing the adoption of climate resilient agriculture for scaling up sustainability: A study in Southern Coastal District of Odisha

Abstract

The climate changes create an alarming situation for the farmers which only solution is the adoption of climate resilient agriculture. The study was done in the Ganjam district of Odisha with the respondent number 120. The comparison analysis of the NICRA beneficiary farmers and non-beneficiaries were done and presented in the paper. The results from table of agronomic practices found that most of beneficiary farmers have adopted the summer ploughing (mean = 2.91) and followed by crop rotation with pulses (mean =2.78). There was high adoption rate of organic farming (mean=2.76) and green manuring (mean=2.83) by NICRA beneficiaries. The beneficiaries also get medical services and nutritional feed for their livestock timely and easily. The water management practices showed the results that the beneficiary farmers used the proper drainage system and mulching practices as compare with the non- beneficiaries. The beneficiary farmers were getting the timely inputs in the project. The non-beneficiaries were facing a lot of problems while selling of their products after the natural calamities. The extension personnel should create more awareness among the farmers for high adoption of the climate resilient practices.