JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC RESEARCH FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY Impact Factor 1.625, ISSN: 2320-5083, Volume 2, Issue 12, January 2015 26 www.jiarm.com ROLE OF CLIMATE RESILIENT AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES ON SOCIO- ECONOMIC STATUS OF FARMING COMMUNITY OF SALCHAPRA-I VILLAGE, CACHAR DISTRICT, ASSAM K. D. SINGHA 1 D. HAZARIKA 2 A.S.N. ZAMAN 3 AJANTA BORAH 4 BRITAN RAHMAN 5 R. HELIM 6 D. BHARALI 7 S. K. BHATTACHARYYA 8 R R SAHARIA 9 P SARMA 10 1&3 Senior Scientist, 2 Principal Scientist, Regional Agricultural Research Station, AAU, Shillongani, Assam, 4 SRF, NICRA project, KVK, Cachar, 5,6,7,8&9 Subject Matter Specialist, KVK, Cachar, AAU, Assam, 10 Programme Coordinator, KVK, Cachar, AAU, Assam ABSTRACT All total 84 households of NICRA village situated at Salchapra-I in Cachar district were selected at random (80% of the total households) with an objective to determine the change of socio-economic status of farming community, after the implementation of National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) technologies. The primary data on socio- economic parameters were collected through benchmark survey in 2010 - 11. Based on the data collected, various possible and adaptable interventions to the prevailing climatic conditions were executed utilizing the available resources of the village and their effectiveness on farming practices were studied during 2011-12 and 2012-13. The study revealed that the farming community is highly adoptive to climate resilient agricultural technologies that being implemented. The benefit-cost analysis showed improvement for the major crops and livestock enterprises. It was improved for Sali rice (2.38), Autumn rice (boro and ahu) (2.15), potato (1.93), pulses (1.99) and poultry (4.05). The study also revealed the change in farming practices like adoption of new and flood tolerant varieties, high valued crops, improved poultry breeds, recommended packages of practices, etc., with the intervention of the technologies showed significant influence on farming practices of the farming community which led to betterment of the socio-economic status of the villagers. KEYWORDS: Socio-Economic Status, Cachar, Rainfed