Title: INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOUR OF FARMERS ON ADOPTION OF CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE PRACTICES

Authors: Polasa Bhuvanasri, Raj Kumar Josmee Singh and Karukumalli Sindhura

Publisher: The President, Society of Extension Education Gujarat

Keywords: climate change, informal social networks, climate-smart agricultural practices

Volume: 39

Issue: 1

Year: June 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56572/gjoee.2025.39.1.0011

Abstract: There remains hardly any dimension which is unaffected by climate change. Farmer needs ex-ante and ex-post strategies to overcome the adverse effects of climate change. Social Networks enhances in discerning the mechanism of information flow through the agricultural stakeholders and promote such information in adoption of Climate Smart Agricultural Practices (CSAPs). The purpose is to identify different actors and star agents involved in disseminating information and use them as a means to spread agricultural technologies and related information to farmers. Study area includes three adopted villages of CPGS-AS, CAU-I i.e., Lairkhla, Khweng and Palwi of Ri-Bhoi district of Meghalaya. The contemporary study has the following objectives. i) Identifying various climate-smart agricultural practices in adopted villages of CPGS-AS, CAU-I. ii) To map informal social network structures of MGMG beneficiary farmers of adopted villages under CPGS-AS, CAU-I. Fifteen CSA Practices under four domains from three adopted villages of CPGS-AS, CAU-I were identified and documented. Sociograms depict the information disseminating behaviour and network attributes like centrality, cohesiveness, ties and homophily of Khweng, Lairkhla and Palwi are 11,9,11 & 0.444,0.444,0.444 & 90,90,90 & 0.77,0.55,0.86 respectively. Few studies uncovered the role of actors and social networks, but this study uniquely explores and presents the visualizations of networks under CPGS-AS, CAU-I.