Socio-psychological spectrum of farmer's and their perception about climate change in Ranchi, Jharkhand

Climate change is one of the major global force reshaping rural ecosystem and livelihood. Understanding perception level of native farmers about the menace has bearing on ensuring farm household sustainability. In the present study we represented spectrum of socio-economic-psychological traits of farmers that found majority respondents in middle age group with primary level of education residing mostly in joint family and having more than 20 years farming experience. But suffer with low level of contact with extension personnel, access to mass media source and weather forecast. Overall, 59.17 per cent of the respondents reported high level of overall change in climatic condition and changes in rainy season perceived the most.