Awareness on indicators and causes of climate change among rural farm women in Hisar District of Haryana

Climate change affects agriculture in terms of productivity, agricultural practices, environmental effects, rural spaces and adaptation. The climate change has been considerably threaten human health both directly or indirectly through increasing temperatures, rising sea levels, water and food supply impacts, extreme weather events like floods, droughts, earthquakes etc., susceptible shelter and population migration. All these environmental consequences affect directly or indirectly to the physical, social and psychological health of human. Climate change is the biggest threat to agriculture and the environment but still majority of farming community and other people are not fully aware about climate change. Therefore a research work was carried out in Hisar district of Haryana state with the objectives to study the awareness level of rural women on indicators and causes of climate change. Results revealed that 52.00 per cent of the respondents had low level of awareness at pre intervention stage regarding indicators of climate change followed by medium (33.00%) and high (15%). Whereas at post exposure stage 55.00 per cent of the respondents had high level of awareness regarding indicators of climate change followed by, medium (45.00%). Regarding awareness on causes of climate change at pre intervention stage, it was found that 77.00 per cent of the respondents had low level of awareness followed by, medium (12.00%) and high (11%). Whereas at post exposure stage 56.00 per cent of the respondents had high level of awareness regarding causes of climate change followed by medium (29.00%) and low (15.00%) and significant t-value was 9.194.