PRODUCTION SYSTEMS IN DRYLANDS OF JATH TEHSIL OF SANGLI DISTRICT

Abstract

There are several possibilities for increasing the income of farmers. There are different strategies of crop productions for different states/regions and they are location-specific. The performance of agriculture sector depends on rainfall, climate change, resource scarcity, changing demand pattern of food and agriculture products and many more uncertainties. Particularly, Jath tehsil is a drought-prone tehsil and it has almost all area as dryland area. The farmers in this area choose to an effective risk-coping strategy of farming, because they are not aware of the risks faced and they are unable to manage them effectively. So, they adopt subsistence farming strategy.