National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The study was carried out in seoni district of Madhya Pradesh to assess the effect of Climate change on cropping pattern of vegetables. Six villages of Seoni block were selected on the basis maximum area under vegetable crops. Total 120 vegetable growers were selected by simple random sampling method. The study reveals that more than half of the vegetable growers had medium socio-economic status and half of the vegetable growers had low level of knowledge towards climate change. Near to two third of the growers shifted their cropping pattern from potato- Cabbage - cucumber to Maize - Pea - Musk melon due to climate change. The results of correlation analysis shows that occupation and knowledge level of the vegetable growers had positive and significant correlation with effect of climate change on cropping pattern of vegetables. The vegetable growers faced economic, market related, technical, situational, extension and institutional related problems in vegetable cultivation. Planners and development workers should formulate policies to improve the knowledge towards the climate and design a procedure to overcome these problems.
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