Study on adaptation strategies adopted by farmer and factors influencing regarding adaptation strategies to climate change in Satpura range agro climatic zone of Madhya Pradesh

The climate change has greater impact on agriculture production in turn on food security which appears to be more complicated in the developing countries like India. In India Madhya Pradesh state, which depends on rain-fed for production with low socioeconomic development, is also affected by climate change. Farmers face numerous challenges in implementing adaptation strategies, including socioeconomic, credit, irrigation access, and a lack of timely reliable information. Thus, this study was conducted in Chhindwara district. which is part of agro climatic zone of Satpura range of M.P. Face-to-face interview with the help of semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect primary data from the total population. The number of respondents from all the 6 blocks was 240. The data gathered through a semi-structured interview schedule was analysed using frequency, percentage, and mean statistics. The results indicate that most common adaptation strategies adopted by farmers in the study area are “selection of appropriate crop/varieties” and “alteration of sowing dates” as about 92.50 per cent and 92.08 per cent of the respondents adopted them with mean score of 1.92 and was ranked 1st and the remaining 7.50 per cent and 7.92 per cent did not adopt these. The findings show that “unavailability of appropriate crop/variety” and “delay in timely availability of inputs like crop variety, insecticides, and pesticides” are the major factors influencing the farmers with a mean score of 2.27 and were ranked I. Training courses, land management and control of water inputs have been suggested to improve adaptation activities to enhance the adaptive capacity of farmers to mitigate these conditions.