A Study on the Constraints Faced by the Rice Growers w hile Adopting the Climate Based Adaptation Strategy

The study aimed to assess the constraints faced by the rice growers in taking adaptation strategy towards ensuring livelihood and food security and to enlist suitable suggestions to overcome these problems. The study was conducted in Orathanadu block of Thanjavur district in Tamil Nadu and proportionate random sampling was employed to select 120 sample respondents from the four selected villages from the above block. Majority of the farmers felt high cost of farm input (96.70 %), non-availability of water storage facility (95.00 %), taking more time to get crop loan (97.50 %), non availability of farm labour (98.30 %), lack of access to weather forecasting technologies (62.50 %), as their major constraints in taking up the adaptation strategies towards climate change in ensuring livelihood and food security.