Adoption of Drought Mitigation Strategies in Irrigated Cropping System of Madurai District
K. Mahandrakumar *
Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology, Agricultural Collage and Research Institute (TNAU) - Madurai, India.
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Abstract
In drought situation, farmers in Irrigated ecosystem often faced financial losses due to uncertainty of occurrence of drought event. With the intention of minimizing impact of drought through application of science and technology, drought management plans are implemented by government. The outcome of government supported mitigation strategies was studied. The result revealed that only less number of farmer have adopted technological mitigation strategies on their own. Conducting demonstrations, trainings and supply of critical mitigation inputs through development departments must be continued to educate the farmers to adopt the mitigation measures.
Keywords: Climate change, drought mitigation and adoption of technologies