Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability
Year : 2019, Volume : 7, Issue : 1
First page : ( 51) Last page : ( 60)
Print ISSN : 2320-6411. Online ISSN : 2320-642X.
Article DOI : 10.5958/2320-642X.2019.00007.3

Input-Use Efficiency of Adopters of Climate Resilient Technologies in Paddy and Wheat Crop in Punjab Agriculture

Kumar Sunny*, Sidana Baljinder Kaur

Department of Economics and Sociology, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

*Correspondance: sunnykumar@pau.edu

Online published on 31 May, 2019.

Abstract

Climate variability and change is one of the major sources of risk for Indian economy in general and agriculture sector in particular. This study was conducted with the purpose to evaluate the effect of climate resilient technologies on the production efficiency of rice and wheat crops in Punjab agriculture. The study was based on primary as well as secondary data. The results revealed that the major significant changes in temperature and rainfall (increase in temperature and decrease in rainfall) have been observed during last two sub-periods at almost all the locations of Punjab. The technical efficiency of the adopters vis-à-vis non-adopters of climate resilient technologies revealed that the adopters of Direct Seeded Rice in paddy and zero-till wheat in wheat were the most efficient among all the adopters as well as non-adopters. The adopters of laser leveller are more efficient in machine labour as their mean score is 0.85 as compared with all climate resilient technologies as well as non-adopters. The farmers using improved wheat varieties are more efficient as regards the use of pesticides as their mean technical efficiency score is 0.71 as compared with0.69 for non-adopters. Keeping in view the climate change, increase in the adaptive capacity of the farmers which can be through synergy between agricultural research, agricultural extension, insurance and institutional support is needed so that agriculture could continue as profitable enterprise even in the situation of climate change.

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Keywords

Agricultural production, Climate change, Climate resilient technologies, DEAP analysis, Technical efficiency.

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