A TEST TO MEASURE KNOWLEDGE OF FARMERS ON MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION PRACTICES OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN HILL AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM
Journal Title: International Journal of Agricultural Science and Research (IJASR) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 1
Abstract
An attempt has been made to develop a test for measuring knowledge of farmers on mitigation and adaptation practices of climate change due to the non-availability of a standardized scale to measure the farmers’ knowledge level. Pertinent items were collected covering all aspects of mitigation and adaptation practices to climate change in hill agriculture. After getting the jury opinion on the items, thirty-five items were selected and administered to 36 farmers. Finally, 20 knowledge items were included in the final format of the knowledge test based on the difficulty index which ranges from 30 to 70, discrimination index which ranges from 0.25 to 0.75 and point- biserial correlation coefficient. The reliability of the knowledge test was measured with the help of split-half method and reliability coefficients was found to be r=0.69, which indicates that this knowledge test is quite reliable. To administer the knowledge test a respondent is given one mark for each correct answer and zero mark for each wrong answer. The final study was conducted in West Garo Hill district of hill state, Meghalaya where the most agriculturally vulnerable Community and Rural Development (C&RD) block to climate change was selected and 60 farmers were selected randomly. The study revealed that less than 50% of farmers had knowledge about mitigation practices of climate change and a majority of the farmer knew about adaptation practices of climate change. Cumulatively 46.67% respondents come under medium level of knowledge category on mitigation and adaptation practices of climate change
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ALETHEA DYMPEP, R. J. SINGH
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