Adoption of Climate Resilient Technologies under NICRA in South Western Part of Rajasthan, India

Abstract

ICAR launched a network project ‘National Innovations on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) in climatic vulnerable districts across India. Project aims to enhance resilience of Indian agriculture to climate change and climate vulnerability through four module of technological demonstration. Present study was conducted to application of climate resilient technologies in NICRA village Dhanta. The Dhanta village of Sirohi district was purposively selected for the study with sample size 250 farmers under NICRA project. The research finding indicated that after NICRA project implementation, 128 hectares area under digging of ponds and check dam and in about 238 ha area castor stalk and mustard residue were incorporated by use of rotavator and disc plough & disc harrow. In case of recycling of organic waste, 152 farmers had prepared 435 tons rich compost from castor stalk with the help of rotavator. Total 56.80 per cent and 52.00 per cent farmers had adopted short duration drought tolerant variety and summer deep ploughing technologies after implementation of NICRA project, respectively. Whereas, Pearlmillet (MPMH-17), Green gram (IPM-410-3), chickpea (GNG-2144) and Mustard (RH-0406) crop yields were increased by 21.90, 22.68, 8.8 and 17.80 percent, respectively over local varieties and milk production of buffalo per lactation had increased by 14 per cent. Total 259 farmers and 130 farm women were participated in training programs. In overall, majority of farmers (82.20 per cent) had high level of adoption in crop production techniques, followed by livestock management (78.20 per cent), natural resource management (63.80 per cent) and institutional intervention (55.60 per cent) to climate resilient technologies, respectively.