What is it about?
Thus, this study attempted to study micro level vulnerability in agriculture in Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh. The study aimed to introduce Agriculture Vulnerability Index (AVI) and evaluate the farmer perception about climate change and significant impact on agriculture utilising both primary and secondary data. The primary data was collected from 240 respondent using multistage random stratified sampling. The AVI was computed utilising Shannon Information Entropy method based on four indicators such as exposure to climatic variability, exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity divided into 23 indicators.
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Why is it important?
The agricultural landscape has undergone a notable transformation, characterized by a transition to a rice–wheat-gram cropping system, primarily facilitated by enhanced irrigation infrastructure as observed from primary survey. The farmers are compelled to revert to their old system of millet-gram-wheat cropping system due to increased ground water exploitation and present climatic variability.
Perspectives
Understanding agricultural vulnerability to climate change is crucial for preventing long-term consequences such as food security, changing human settlement patterns and economic instability.
Mr. Lucky Sharma
Banaras Hindu University
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This page is a summary of: Micro-level assessment of agricultural vulnerability to climate variability in Mirzapur District, Uttar Pradesh, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-025-05624-7.
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