FISHERY BASED FARMERS PERCEPTION OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN COASTAL KARNATAKA, INDIA
Journal Title: International Journal of Agriculture Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 8, Issue 53
Abstract
Fishery based Farmers in a coastal Karnataka, priorities climate variability as their primary agricultural and fishery productivity-reducing factor. This paper focuses the importance of considering local farmers’ perceptions of climate hazard, as this significantly persuade on-farm investments and decision-making. The study is evidence for farmers perceived climatic and weather patterns to have changed over the past decades; they perceived increasing trend of occurrence of drought (78.75%). Where decreasing trend of rainfall (74.17%), temperature (97.92%) and wind speed (87.08%) were valued as increasing. Discussants are familiar with long and short season rains based on the quantity of rainfall received and duration. According to their judgment, the long rains occur between July and August, while the short rains occur between October and December, leading to declined crop and fish productivity, increased drought and flood incidents and increased livestock and human morbidity and mortality. The majority of respondents had average to better perception on changing climate. The climatic data show evidence that corroborates the farmers’ perceptions.
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H. M. VINAYAKUMAR
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