Vol. 10, Special Issue 7 (2025)

Author(s): N Narmatha and V Uma

Abstract: Climate change is one of the most serious threats for sustainable agriculture and livestock development, with adverse impacts expected on the environment, human health, food security, economic activity, natural resource management, and physical infrastructure. The aim of the study is to identify the socio-economic characteristics of the livestock farmers and information seeking behaviour of veterinary and climate related knowledge. The study was carried out in the Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu and the data was collected through structured interview schedule, collected data was analysed using descriptive statistics and association was studied by using chi square test. The results revealed that majority of the respondents were male (75 per cent), literate (85 per cent), belonged to backward community (85 per cent), had family size up to five members (88 per cent), old aged (69 per cent), had agriculture as primary occupation with livestock as secondary occupation (85 per cent) and 95.00 per cent were land holders. Majority of the respondents had not attended any training (85 per cent), had an annual income of more than 0.5 lakh (72 per cent) and contacted veterinary assistant surgeons for seeking veterinary related information (96 per cent). They were member in one organisation (42 per cent) and they utilised television for seeking climate related information (30 per cent). The socio-economic characteristics of livestock farmers and their information seeking behaviour was helpful in designing extension programmes to mitigate and adaptation measures to cope up the climate change.