Year: 2018 | Month: October | Volume 8 | Issue 5
Decoding Resilience Status of Dairy Farmers against Extreme Weather Events: A Demographic Perspective
Abstract:
Extreme weather events like prolonged dry spells or prolonged phase of rainfall adversely affect dairy farming. Resilience status against extreme weather events varies in different demographic groups. A study has been conducted by taking the responses from 100 respondents who participated in the training programme organized by Eastern Regional Station of ICAR- National Dairy Research Institute. Responses were collected from 4 demographic groups namely; tribal male, tribal female, non-tribal male and non-tribal female. One resilience scale was developed to measure resilience status of the respondents. From the study, it was found that the resilience trait of the respondents were associated with social support (chi-square value 105.42) and stress status (chi-square value 88.19) of the respondents. Highest mean score of 65.20±.17 with respect to resilience was obtained by the female tribal respondents, whereas, they got the lowest stress score of .18±.004. In general tribal respondents were having highest resilience score with higher social support score with lower stress score than non-tribal respondents. From, the study it can be concluded that, higher social support and lesser stress scores attributed to higher resilience of respondents against extreme weather events.
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