7 Agricultural Vulnerability Index for the Districts
of Karnataka
In the present study, 7 indicators were considered for the development of agricultural vulnerability index (Table 3). Based on PCA, agricultural vulnerability
index values for all the districts of Karnataka are given in Table 6. Rank 1 indicates
maximum vulnerability and the vulnerability decreases with increasing rank.
Figure 17 depicts the agricultural vulnerability of the districts of Karnataka. Areas
in red are the most vulnerable districts and those in green are the least vulnerable
Weights for Components (Agriculture) Generated by PCA
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Fig. 15 Weights for agricultural component indicators generated by PCA
Weights for Comonents (Livelihoods) Generated by PCA
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Fig. 16 Weights for socio-economic component Indicators generated by PCA
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