Effectiveness of Educational Technologies on Adoption of Climate Smart Agricultural Practices

Abstract

Climate change brings a cascade of risks from physical impacts to ecosystems, agroecosystems, newlineagricultural production, food chains, incomes and trade, with economic and newlinesocial impacts on livelihoods and food security and nutrition. Understanding the cascade of newlinerisks, as well as the vulnerabilities to these risks, is essential to frame ways to adapt. Reducing newlinevulnerabilities is the key for reducing the net impacts on food security and nutrition and also newlineto prevent long-term effects. Increasing resilience of food security in the face of climate newlinechange calls for multiple interventions, from social protection to agricultural practices and newlinerisk management. Therefore the present study was conducted to investigate effectiveness of newlineeducational technologies on adoption of climate smart agricultural practices of green gram, newlinechickpea and groundnut growing farmers in Dharwad district 2019-22. One hundred and newlineeight farmers were chosen by simple random technique. Data was gathered using the personal newlineinterview technique. The findings revealed overall knowledge on climate smart agricultural newlinepractices was higher in case of chickpea growers (53.57 %) followed by green gram (52.03%) newlineand groundnut (50.35%).The overall perception index on climate smart agricultural practices, newlinewas found higher among the groundnut growers (61.50%) followed by chickpea (58.56%) newlineand green gram (58.23%) growers. The overall climate resilience index was higher in case of newlinechickpea growers 54.00 per cent followed by groundnut (52.06%) and green gram (49.17%). newlineWith respect to climate resilience dimensions preparedness to contingency plan for newlineclimate change found to be highest among chickpea growers (62.77 %) followed by newlinegroundnut growers (60.33 %) and green gram growers (56.11 %) same trend has been newlineobserved with respect to problem solving skills (56.77%, 55.88% and 51.33%), optimism newline(52.08%, 50.50% and 47.41%) and least self-confidence (48.60%, 47.66% and 45.13%). The newlinemaximum per cent (57.77%) of knowledge gain has been observed as a result of exposure to newlineth