PRODUCTION SYSTEMS IN DRYLANDS OF JATH TEHSIL OF SANGLI DISTRICT

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. KEY WORDS: production, drought-prone area, dryland, risk-coping, livelihood, diversification, climate