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Manjeet ¹, Nasib Singh ¹, Joginder Singh Malik ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension Education C.C.S. Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar (Haryana), IN

Abstract

Climate change is the burning issue all over the world and it affects almost every sector directly or indirectly. Agriculture is highly sensitive to climatic variability and weather extremes.The impacts of climate on agriculture are already seen, yet sizable gaps remain between scientific agriculture knowledge and its implication at farm level to tackle with current issue. A study was conducted to explore the services provided by extension personal specially agriculture development officers and horticulture development officers (A.D.O, H.D.O) working state agriculture department regarding to mitigate the climate change effect in agriculture, because they are main stack holder and work at grass ischolar_main level with farmers. Results showed that maximum extension personnel’s suggests adoption of suitable agronomic practices such as growing crop according local climatic condition, crop rotations, growing of soil nature based crop and best weed management. Whereas, advise for lowering CO₂ emission from agriculture and introduction of new cultivation methods were poor. It implies that extension personals must be well acquainted with knowledge on climate change to effectively transfer knowledge to the farmers and field functionaries. Government should organize trainings which needs to be imparted by leading institutes working on climate change to the extension personnel working in SAD.

Keywords

Extension, Agriculture, Climate Change, Mitigation.

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Abhilash Singh Maurya ¹, Joginder Singh Malik ¹, Pravin Kumar Sharma ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, C.C.S. Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar (Haryana), IN
2 Department of Agriculture, Jagan Nath University, Bahadurgarh (Haryana), IN

Abstract

Access to right information is the key to addressing many problems faced in the agriculture sector. “Disaster preparedness and management, with practices such as smart water management, maintenance of watersheds, accurate weather information and so on can go a long way in reducing the impacts brought about by the uncertainty of weather and climate change.

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Abhilash Singh Maurya ¹, Joginder Singh Malik ¹, Pravin Kumar Sharma ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, C.C.S. Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar (Haryana), IN
2 Department of Agriculture, Jagan Nath University, Bahadurgarh (Haryana), IN

Abstract

Entire world is experiencing a tremendous increase in urbanization and rural to urban migration. The United Nations reported that during 2018, about 55 per cent of the world’s population lives in urban areas and is expected to increase to 68 per cent by 2050. India which ranks number two (after China) in the list of countries by population faces similar challenges. By 2024, India is expected to be the most populous country in the world (UN DESA, 2017). Urbanization in India is growing at a faster rate than rest of the world (Hindustan Times, 2007). The World Bank reported that about 34 per cent of India’s population now lives in urban areas which will further rise to 40 per cent in 2030.

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