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Department of Agricultural Economics, S.V. Agricultural College, ANGRAU, Tirupati-517 502.
The present study was frame to analyse the farmers awareness and adoption of CRA technologies. The data was collected through primary survey from sample farmers with sample size of 120 from Ananthapuramu and Kurnool districts of Scarce rainfall zone in Andhra Pradesh. The awareness level of National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) and NICRA Non beneficiary farmers were compared using Mann-Whitney U test. It was inferred that, NICRA farmers were more aware (79.18%) on NICRA technologies than NICRA Non beneficiary farmers famers (23.12%) in Ananthapuramu while in case of Kurnool the NICRA farmers awareness level was 77.57 per cent which is larger than that in non-NICRA (20.50%). The ranking of CRA technologies under each module based on the mean scores of extents of adoption were analysed through Garatte ranking. In-situ moisture conservation technologies in cotton and redgram through dead furrows (I Rank) followed by Farm Ponds (II Rank) having realized the importance of saving the crop from drought. In crop production module, crop diversification practices from paddy to Jowar and vegetable as contingent crop (I Rank) followed by drought tolerant variety of red gram (II Rank). In the livestock module revealed that the majority of the farmers adopted conservation of green fodder (I Rank) followed by preventive vaccination (II Rank). Institutional interventions are Custom Hiring Centre for timely field operations (I Rank) was highly adopted as it saved up to 80 per cent of field costs and enabled timely field operations followed by agro-met services (II Rank). Understanding CRA technologies will help non beneficiary farmers to adopt and increase their crop yield..
KEYWORDS: Climate resilient technologies, National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture Scarce rainfall Zone, Awareness, Adoption.