Factors Affecting the Farmer-To-Farmer Spread of Selected Climate Resilient Technologies

Abstract

Climate change has significantly altered the priorities of the agriculture research, experiencing the impacts of climate change, the focus of agriculture research has shifted from yield intensification to climate adaptation and mitigation through climate resilient agriculture. Effective adaptation to climate change requires efficient technology dissemination system. Understanding technology spread pathways, factors influencing spread of the technologies is very important for the efficient spread of climate resilient technologies. The present study was conducted to find out the factors affecting the farmerto-farmer spread of climate resilient technologies in the state of Telangana. Ex-post facto research design was used. Khammam district was selected purposively. Enkoor mandal was selected purposively as the spread of climate resilient technologies is observed in the mandal. Two NICRA villages and two NON-NICRA villages were selected from the mandal randomly. 30 farmers were selected at random from each village to create a sample of 120 respondents. The relationship analysis between factors affecting farmer to farmer spread of climate resilient technologies regarding NICRA farmers out of 18 variables 9 variables namely farm size, annual income, irrigation, information seeking behaviour, extension contact, participation in extension activities and relative advantage, trialability and access to technology showed significant correlation at 1% and 5% level of probability with technology spread. Where as in Non-NICRA respondents out of 18 variables 2 variables namely irrigation, access to technology were positively correlated at 0.05 level of significance.