Extent of adoption of Agricultural Practices followed by Rice growers in response to the adverse impact of climate change in Coastal Odisha

To enable farm people to increase their family food security, it is crucial to increase the extent to which diverse practises are adopted to combat climate change. The present study was undertaken to assess the extent of the adoption of different agricultural practices in rice crops in response to climate change. The study was conducted in the Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha . 2 blocks, 4 Gram panchayats, and 8 villages were chosen for the study 120 numbers of respondents by purposive sampling method. An ex-post facto research design was followed in this research. The findings of the study showed that giving protective irrigation in response to late monsoon with a mean score of 1.60 was the most adopted practice whereas resowing in case of low germination percentage with a mean score of 1.17 was the least adopted practice in the research area. Education, annual income, mass media exposure, extension contact, and farming experiences had a greater influence on the extent of adoption of practices in response to climate change. The conglomeration of education, annual income, mass media exposure, extension contact, and farming experiences of the farmers has attributed 75.3% to the extent of adoption of the practices.