Vol. 11, Issue 12 (2022)

The study was conducted during the year 2019-20 in the Satara district of Maharashtra state. The present investigation “Attitude of Villagers towards Drought Management Schemes in Satara district.” 10 respondents from each village were selected. Data were collected by personally interviewing 140 villagers with the help of specially designed interview schedule. The statistical tools such as frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and Karl’s Pearson correlation coefficient were used for grouping the data. Result obtained after analysis have been summarized below.

Findings of relational analysis revealed that, independent variables like education, cropping pattern, occupation, annual income, source of information, extension contact, risk orientation were positively and significantly related with knowledge about drought management schemes. The variable age, land holding negatively and non-significantly correlated with the knowledge about drought management schemes. And relation between family sizes of the villagers is non-significant with Knowledge towards Drought Management Schemes. Also finding that overall high (91.63%) level of knowledge followed by partial knowledge (6.43%) and least knowledge (2.14%) regarding Drought Management Schemes.