A STUDY ON CLIMATE ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE LEVEL OF INTERNATIONALIZED ORGANIC AGRICULTURAL TECH-BASED SMES

Abstract

The Climate Engineering knowledge can be specified the knowledge on continuous changes in various climatic forms of a region judges through the changes in the behavior of numerous climate engineering factors which consequential in fluctuations of the entire ecosystem and socio-economic operations. Subse quently those fluctuations open up the doors for ambiguous operations of internationally oriented organic agricultural TSME technopreneurs on their way to sustainability. Present earth is frequent of unpredicted and extreme climatic events such as rainfall, drought, high temperature, high snow, flood, forest fires, volcano eruption, higher sea level etc. which resulted in poor and unpredictable yields from organic agriculture and agriculture allied activities. This study was conducted with the main aims of identifying the key knowledge domains, present levels of climate engineering knowledge, present levels (values) of each climate engineering knowledge domain and to identify the most contributing climate engineering knowledge domain of internationalized organic agricultural Tech-based small and medium enterprises Technopreneurs in Sri Lanka. Out of the total population of 448 internationalized organic agri-TSME technopreneurs, number of 112 internationally oriented organic agri-TSME technopreneurs of tobacco, dragon fruit, mango, cashew and coconut were selected based on Stratified and Simple Random sampling techniques. A self-administered Questionnaire used to collect primary data plus tables, graphs, pie charts along with a multiple regression analysis used as per the qualitative and quantitative data analysis using the SPSS. The research study identified Physical Knowledge, Casual Knowledge, Effect Knowledge and Action Related Knowledge as main knowledge domains for the level of Climate Engineering knowledge of internationalized organic agri-TSME technopreneurs. Tobacco, Dragon Fruit, Coconut, Mango and Cashew internationally oriented organic agri-TSME technopreneurs recorded mean level of Climate Engineering knowledge values as 69.65%, 67.96%, 59.78%, 47.41% and 46.58% respectively. Their individual Climate Engineering Knowledge Domain values are concerned, they possessed an average value of 57% as their physical knowledge, average value of 54.7% for casual knowledge, average level of knowledge on effect 61.85% and average value of 60.36% for action related knowledge where identified the Effect Knowledge is the most contributing knowledge domain. There is an essentiality of implementing up to date knowledge dissemination and technology transfer processes through national and international resources physically and virtually (internet, digital information and communication technologies) to improve internationally oriented organic agri-TSME technopreneurs levels of effect knowledge and action related knowledge as to improve their level of climate engineering knowledge.