TY - JOUR AU - Santhi, Mahima AU - Rajaram, S PY - 2022/01/08 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Farmers’ perceptions on Drought, Technological preferences in Drought mitigation and their Implications in Mulberry Sericulture in South India JF - Journal of Extension Education JA - JEE VL - 32 IS - 4 SE - Research Article DO - 10.26725/JEE.2020.4.32.6604-6612 UR - https://extensioneducation.org/index.php/jee/article/view/706 SP - AB - <p><em>Due to widespread monsoon irregularities, farmers are facing drought situations intermittently. </em><em>Farmers’ participatory rural appraisal was conducted in selected silkworm growing clusters of South India </em><em>covering 300 farmers to determine how sericulture farmers perceive and cope with drought, to study the </em><em>technological preferences and their implications in mulberry, Morus alba leaf production &amp; rearing of </em><em>silkworm, Bombyx mori. The study revealed that drought is a major constraint for silk cocoon production </em><em>among 84 per cent of total farmers surveyed. The local drought perceptions described by farmers were </em><em>acute water shortage, dry and desiccating wind, drying of leaves in the silk worm rearing shed disease </em><em>outbreak in silkworms, spinning of small size cocoons, higher melting of cocoons and lesser Silk Ratio. </em><em>While studying the technological preferences, it was observed that farmers gave more importance to </em><em>technologies which have direct impact on silk cocoon yield.</em></p> ER -