Vol. 11, Special Issue 11 (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.

With respect to relationship between independent variables and attitude of respondents towards Drought Management Schemes, it was found that variables like education, family size, cropping pattern, annual income, source of information, extension contact, risk orientation positively and significantly related with knowledge about drought management schemes. The variables like age, land holding, occupation negatively and non-significantly correlated with the Attitude towards drought management schemes. Also finding that overall high (85.72 per cent) favourable attitude followed by respondents having partial favourable attitude were 7.14 per cent toward Drought Management Schemes. Remaining 7.14 per cent respondents showed unfavourable attitude towards Drought Management Schemes.