Relationship between profile of cumin growers and their knowledge towards climate smart agriculture

Abstract

Climate is improving the understanding and characterization of extreme weather. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) is an approach for transforming and reorienting agricultural development under the new realities of climate change Climate is the average weather in a given area over a longer period of time. A climate description includes information suchas average temperaturein different seasons, rainfall and sunshine. India has a long standing tradition of spice cultivation and holds the distinction of being the largest producer, exporter, and consumer of spices globally. The present study was confined to “Ex-post-facto” research design. The literal meaning of ex-post-facto is “from what is done afterwards”. The multistage sampling technique was used to select a representative sample of respondents for present investigation. The study was undertaken in Banaskantha, Patan and Kutch districts which comes under North-West Agro-Climatic zone as well as in the jurisdiction of Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University. From each selected district two talukas were purposively selected for study based on highest area and production of cumin. Hence, total six talukas were selected. From each selected taluka, five villages and from each village ten cumin growers were selected randomly. Thus, total 300 cumin growers were selected for the study. There were 10 independent variable selected for this study. There were education, scientific orientation, risk orientation and innovativeness had exerted positive and highly significant relationship with knowledge towards climate smart agriculture, while farming experience, mass media exposure and extension contact had positive and significant relationship with knowledge towards climate smart agriculture. Whereas, age, land holding and annual income exerted non-significant relationship with knowledge towards climate smart agriculture.