摘要：The study examined the farmers’ perceptions regarding climate change, types of adaptation strategies,factors influencing adaptation choices and barriers to adaptation, in the low-hill zone of Himachal Pradesh inIndia. In low-hill zone, 202 farm households were randomly considered for the study. In the region, 62.4 % ofthe farm households were of the opinion that temperature has increased during the last 10 years, whereas,57.9% of the respondents have perceived that there is a decrease in rainfall in low-hills of the state. In thispart of the state, people have switched over to off farm jobs to meet their livelihood as perceived by 89.1percent of the respondents. At farm level, farmers have adopted irrigation, crop diversification, change ofsowing/planting dates and crop variety as the strategies to cope up with the changing situation. About 50%of the people have perceived that high cost of adaptation, limited knowledge of adaptation measures, lack ofaccess to technology, labour availability and early weather warnings were the main barriers to climate changeadaptation. In the region, adaptation to climate change was influenced by education level, .
