Climate Change and Agriculture: Interface between Cooperatives and Local Government for Climate Smart Agriculture
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https://doi.org/10.25175/jrd/2025/v44/i4/173952Keywords:
Climate change, Cooperatives, Grama Panchayats, Climate Smart AgricultureAbstract
In this paper, an attempt is made to assess the perceptions of households and local organizations (panchayats and cooperatives) on climate change and identify measures (adaptation and mitigation) adopted by them to make agricultural production climate smart. Climate change has been noticed in all the villages and villagers are also experiencing the adverse impact of the climate change. In some of the villages, adaptation and mitigation measures were undertaken. However, these measures were not implemented effectively mainly because of lack of awareness on the associated value of this. There is therefore an urgent need to provide awareness on these activities which will have long term effect on the climate smart agriculture.
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