aDepartment of Extension Education, PAU, Ludhiana, Punjab
bCentre for Communication and International Linkages, PAU, Ludhiana, Punjab
cUniversity Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab
Online published on 5 December, 2018.
The study was conducted in five agro climatic zones of Punjab. One district from each zone, three blocks from each district and further one village from each block were selected randomly. Ten farmers having experience of minimum fifteen years of paddy cultivation, from fifteen villages of five zones were selected. Data was collected using the interview schedule. Majority of the respondents i.e. 91.21% had adopted short duration crop varieties, 82.43% were availing weather forecasting services. More than three fourth (76.35%) of the respondents opined that by using laser land management practices they could mitigate the effect of climate change, and 26.35% by using resource conservation technologies, 28.37% by adopting soil moisture conservation methods, 11.48% by stopping the burning of crop residue and only 10.81% by using insect pest management techniques.
