Climate risk in Wayanad district: An empirical analysis
Keywords:
Climate, Climate risk, Variability, Risk function, Wayanad, KeralaAbstract
Risk is an integral part of agriculture and farmers face different types of risks throughout crop production. The uncertainties in weather parameters always cause production risk in agriculture, thereby affecting the welfare of farm households. Climate change and the associated natural calamities have further worsened the already climate-risk-prone agricultural sector. Wayanad is a high-range district in Kerala known for agrarian distress due to natural calamities like floods and droughts. The present study is focused on analyzing the climate risk in Wayanad district, primarily caused by temperature and precipitation. Using the Just and Pope production function, the influence of climatic parameters, along with acreage, on the production and production variability of five major crops in the district, namely coffee, arecanut, rubber, coconut and black pepper were estimated. The results showed a significant negative influence of standard deviation in temperature and standard deviation in precipitation on the production of coffee and black pepper respectively. The average temperature in a year was found to significantly increase the production of coconut, whereas it decreased rubber production. No significant influence of climatic parameters was found on the production of arecanut. The Just and Pope variance function showed no significant influence of climatic parameters on the production variability of any of the five crops under study.References
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