A Study on Awareness and Adoption of Climate Resilient Farm Technologies on Crop Production and Protection in Namakkal District of Tamil Nadu

Abstract

Climatechangeissuesareaffectingthelivesandlivelihoodsofthefarmingcommunity in our state. With majority of our rural population dependenton farming, the need of the houris to create awareness among farmers onclimate-resilientfarmtechnologiesandmakethemadoptthem. So,astudywas conducted intheErumapatty block ofNamakkaldistrictofTamilNaduto study the awareness and adoption of climate-resilient farm technologies.The findings of this study revealed that majority of the respondents (68.33per cent) had high level of awareness on climate-resilient farm technologies.With regard to adoption, majority (60.00 per cent) had medium level ofadoption on climate-resilient farm technologies. On crop production andprotection climate resilient farm technologies, namely drought-resilientvarieties, Intercropping, Identification and use of short-duration varieties,drought-resilient fodder crops, Community nursery as a contingency measurefordelayedplanting,IPDMandPPFMtocombatdroughtconditioninsmallonion majority of the farmers in the study area are aware of it and adopt itin this study area.

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https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.000461

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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