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Indian Journal of Economics and Development
Year : 2017, Volume : 13, Issue : 4
First page : ( 609) Last page : ( 618)
Print ISSN : 2277–5412. Online ISSN : 2322-0430.
Article DOI : 10.5958/2322-0430.2017.00223.2

Enhancing Farmers’ Income through Climate Resilient Technologies

Kumar Sunny1,,*, Sidana Baljinder Kaur2

1Ph. D. Scholar, Department of Economics and Sociology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-141004 (India)

2Assistant Economist (Quantitative Methods) Department of Economics and Sociology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-141004 (India)

*Corresponding author's email: sunnykumar@pau.edu

Online published on 13 December, 2017.

Abstract

Climate change has direct influence on quality and quantity of crop production. In response to changing climate, adaptation is becoming a vital component because reductions in negative impacts of climate change are possible when adaptation is fully implemented by the farmers. The present study was conducted with the purpose to evaluate the effect of climate resilient technologies on the production efficiency of rice and wheat crop in Punjab agriculture. The primary data collected from 200 farmers from different agro-climatic zones of Punjab became the study sample. The results revealed that laser leveller and improvement in irrigation structure are the most important adaptations in response to climate variability, which was adopted by 30 and 27 percent of total adoption respectively. In adaptation strategies for paddy cultivation, the variable cost ha−1was less in Direct Seeded Rice (28417) as compared to non-adopters (36816), thereby resulting into a cost saving of 30 percent. This large difference between the adopters and non-adopters is due to large savings in labour in DSR at the time of planting, which has been a major driver in the adoption of this new technology in the state. Similarly, the adoption of Zero till wheat among different climate resilient technologies of wheat cultivation saved 5 percent net returns as compared to non-adopter. Data envelopment analysis was employed to work out the technical efficiencies of paddy and wheat cultivation among the adopters and non-adopters. The adopters of the climate resilient technologies are far more efficient than non-adopters. The results of technical efficiency revealed that the adopters of DSR in paddy and ZTW in wheat are the most efficient among all the adopters as well as non-adopters. The lack of knowledge about technology, lack of credit and low capacity building were the most important constraints in adoption of climateresilient technologies. The majority of the sample respondents suggested that regular and more effective extension services about technology should be available to the farmers which might enable them to make farming a profitable venture.

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Keywords

Agricultural production, climate variability, technical efficiency, technology adoption.

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