A Study on Constraint Analysis of Adoption of Climate Resilient Agricultural Technologies

Climate change has become a global concern which drew the attention of countries all over the world. In order to minimize the detrimental effects of climate change on Indian Agriculture, Climate Resilient Agricultural (CRA) technologies were introduced and being promoted through ICAR- NICRA in the selected vulnerable districts across the country. Although CRA technologies can offer resilience towards climatic aberrations, success in the upscaling of these technologies is contested by the constraints faced by farmers. In this study, an attempt was made to unearth the major constraints encountered by the farmers in the adoption of CRA technologies using a sample size of 120 respondents in three NICRA project villages of Nalgonda district in Telangana State. The findings of Garrett ranking analysis revealed that, poor maintenance and unavailability of all required implements in custom hiring centres, scarcity and high cost of labour, lack of regular meetings by the community members, lack of possible reach out to render services to all the farmers by the officials during peak season were the predominant constraints faced by the farmers in the adoption of CRA technologies.