Predictive Attributes Influencing Adoption level of Farmers' apropos Climate Resilient Agriculture Technologies in Bihar

Abstract

Climate changes are the most threatening challenges to the farmers. The “Climate Resilience” is basically a concept of management of climatic risk. This study focused on extent of adoption level of climate resilient interventions and socioeconomic attributes influencing that of the farmers in West Champaran and Sheohar districts of Bihar under project called “Climate Resilient Agriculture Programme (CRAP) of RPCAU, Pusa funded by Government of Bihar and implemented since Rabi 2019 (although in selected districts it began after 1 year in Rabi 2020). A data of 120 randomly selected farmers were taken. The results explained that most of the respondents (54.17%) had partial level of adoption followed by farmers having full adoption level and non-adoption of CRA interventions. The variables viz., number of schooling year, social participation and innovation propensity were found positively significant at a 10 per cent, 5 per cent and 1 per cent significance level having p-value 0.091, 0.036 and 0.000, respectively; with R Square value of 0.785. Findings concluding that these factors had significant influence on adoption level of climate resilient technologies. From this, researchers can conclude that if they want to promote climate resilient technology, the factors viz., number of schooling years, social participation and innovation propensity of the farmers should be given added preference.