author(s)
Pynbianglang Kharumnuid, IS Rao and V Sudharani

abstract
Adaptation is an efficient way to fight against the adverse impacts of climate change. The adaptation of farmers to climate change is influenced by many socio-economic factors. However, there is a dearth of studies regarding factors influencing the adaptation of farmers against climate change in Meghalaya. Thus, this study attempted to identify the factors responsible for adaptation by interviewing 120 randomly selected potato growers of East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya. The findings revealed that majority of the respondents had/were medium adaptation to climate change (42.50%), medium perception level (42.50%), illiterate (19.17%), large family size (35.83%), marginal farmers (44.17%), medium farm income (35.83%), very low non-farm income (29.17%), medium farming experience (47.5%), medium farmer-to-farmer information exchange (43.33%), medium knowledge about local agro-climate (49.17%), low level of credit and subsidy orientation (47.50%), medium information seeking behavior (43.33%), medium preparedness (45.00%) and low resistance to change (40.83%). In the case of the relationship between independent variables and adaptation, there was a positive and significant relationship between independent variables, namely, perception level, farming experience, knowledge about local agro-climate and preparedness and the adaptation of farmers to climate change at 1 percent level of significance. Whereas, there was a positive and significant relationship between independent variables i.e., size of household, farm income, farmer to farmer information exchange, credit and subsidy orientation and information seeking behavior and adaptation at 5 percent level of significance. But it was found that there was no significant relationship between farm size and adaptation of farmers and there was a negative and significant relationship between change resistance and adaptation at 1 percent level of significance. The study suggested that the future climate and agricultural policies and researches in the state should focus on improving the socio-economic factors which potentially influenced the adaptation of farmers to climate change.