Vol. 9, Special Issue 4, Part G (2025)

Climate change has been imposing several challenges for India, affecting major livelihood sources of the country including agriculture and allied sectors. In order to reduce the climate change risks to agriculture and to increase the climate resilience of farmers, ICAR launched Climate Resilient Agriculture initiative (NICRA) in 2011. The current study has conducted in Karnal district of Haryana, with 60 farmers from NICRA-NDRI beneficiary Villages and 60 from non-beneficiary villages, constituting a total of 120 together. Satisfaction of farmers from the selected services from NICRA-NDRI was analysed and compared among the beneficiary and non-beneficiary farmers using Mann-Whitney U test. Also, the services provided were correlated with the actual performance indicators of dairy animals. Results revealed that ‘timely information’ and ‘crop management’ were the highly satisfied services to the beneficiary farmers, and ‘timely information’ and veterinary related aspects like ‘vaccination of animal’, ‘control of ecto-parasite and endo-parasite’ and ‘information about disease outbreak’ had an upper edge to the beneficiary farmers than non-beneficiary. The correlation results indicated that NICRA services positively affect both production and reproduction indicators of dairy animals. Hence, extending the services of NICRA-NDRI can be suggested to expand the effective climate-resilient actions to more villages and farmers so that more farmers can effectively reduce the adversities caused by climate change.