Vol. 12, Issue 3 (2023)

Author(s):
MS Anarase, GK Sasane, SB Jadhav and SB Bhange

Abstract:
Climate variability refers to the variations in the mean state of the climate and variations in other parameters (such as the occurrence of extremes) on all temporal and spatial scales beyond that of individual weather events. The average range of temperature for a location, as indicated by minimum, maximum and average temperature values, is an example of a measure of climate variability. An ex-post facto research design was used for this research. The investigation was carried out in the Nashik and Sangli district. Thirty villages were chosen at random. A total of 360 farmers were chosen from each community, with twelve grape growers chosen from each village. The information was gathered through personal interviews. This investigation aims to analyze the correlational analysis of personal, socio-economic, communicational and psychological characteristics of grape growers with their perception towards climate variability. In investigated result revealed that out of twelve independent variables education, experience in grape cultivation, social participation, extension contacts, mass media exposure, economic motivation, risk orientation, scientific orientation and achievement motivation all these variables establish positive and significant relationship at 0.01 per cent level of significance with perception of grape growers towards climate variability while other variables like age, annual income, area under grape establish positive and non-significant correlation with perception of grape growers towards climate variability.