IAAST Vol 10 [3] September 2019 87 | P age ©2019 Society of Education, India CODEN: IAASCA ORIGINAL ARTICLE DOI: .10.15515/iaast.0976-4828.10.3.8791 Farmer’s Attitude towards effects of Climate Change and Climate Resilient Practices in Virudhunagar District of Tamil Nadu Alagu Niranjan D #1 Dipak Kumar Bose #2 #1 ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal #2 Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad Email: dan131995@gmail.com ABSTRACT Change in climate has been perceived with more emphasis from the beginning of the 21 st century. Since its effects causes direct effects on ecosystem and agriculture especially farmers of dryland regions, a descriptive research study has been conducted in order to understand the farmers’ attitude towards climate change effects and climate resilient practices in Dryland district (Virudhunagar) of Tamil Nadu. Sivakasi taluk and Virudhunagar district were selected purposefully because the region falls on under dryland farming. 120 respondents were selected randomly from 10 randomly selected villages of selected taluk and pretested interview schedule has been used for collecting responses. The results of the study revealed that 63.33% of the respondents were having medium level attitude towards climate change effects followed by high (25.83%) and low (10.83%) respectively. And it further revealed that 47.7% of the respondents were having medium level attitude towards climate resilient practices followed by low (44.17%) and high (8.33%) respectively. From the above findings this is concluded that effect of climate change had been understood by the respondents in medium level similarly regarding climate resilient practices also respondents were having medium level favourable attitude even though they had not exposed much towards climate resilient practices. Hence the findings of this research may help extension agencies for better implementation and training of climate resilient practices of National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA). Key Words: Climate Change, Dryland, Climate Resilient Practices, NICRA. Received 22.03.2019 Revised 23.04.2019 Accepted 02.05.2019 CITATION OF THIS ARTICLE Alagu Niranjan D and D Kumar Bose . Farmer’s Attitude towards effects of Climate Change and Climate Resilient Practices in Virudhunagar District of Tamil Nadu. Int. Arch. App. Sci. Technol; Vol 10 [3] September 2019 : 87-91 INTRODUCTION Ecosystem is more vulnerable for the effects of climate change. Farmers are the professionals’ totally engaging on ecosystem for their livelihood activities, especially farmers of dryland region. Out of 141 million hectares of cultivated land in India, 80 million hectares are rainfed and dryland which contributes 40% of food grain production and 2/3 rd of the livestock forage production has being done [3]. The above facts directly depict the dependency and importance of dryland agriculture in Indian economy. The effects of climate change have been classified as environmental effects, economic effects and social effects [5]. Under environment, sea level rise, cyclones, floods, heat waves, droughts, loss of biodiversity, forest fires, unseasonal rainfall and increase in surface temperature are the major effects. Effect on production, productivity, diseases on livestock, income and employment are those effects leads to economic loss for farmers. Social effects are public health, food security, employment, income, livelihood, gender, education, housing, poverty and migration which are less perceived earlier and now more researches are being conducted in social effects of climate change [6-13]. In order to find permanent solution to International Archive of Applied Sciences and Technology Int. Arch. App. Sci. Technol; Vol 10 [3] September 2019 : 87-91 © 2019 Society of Education, India [ISO9001: 2008 Certified Organization] www.soeagra.com/iaast.html IAAST ONLINE ISSN 2277- 1565 PRINT ISSN 0976 - 4828