Climate change is increasingly becoming the new buzzword in today’s world. Its derelict impact is capable enough to make the world more food insecure. This paper unpacks the interaction of the perception on climate change with the agro-ecological, socio- personal and gendered experiences of the farmers to climate stress, and to delineate whether gender is playing as the marker factors in relation to climate change in the study region. For the present study, the data from respondents (n= 150) were collected using snowball sampling method in the Terai zone of West Bengal. This area faces constraints of soil erosion, annual heavy rainfall, storms, colder winter months, and an inadequate irrigation system. Hence, here farmers adopted conservation agriculture technology as one of the climate-resilient mechanisms to lessen climatic shocks to their agricultural crops and sustainable production amidst the brunt of climate change. It is quite interesting that crop stubble height is strongly correlated and signifies farmers’ have perception on illness of stubble burning as well as climate change mitigating potential of conservation agriculture through crop residue management. Besides, women farmers’ participation played a critical role in adopting climate-smart agricultural practices. From neural network analysis, perception on climate change is found to be mostly influenced by farmer knowledge level on conservation agriculture, that signifies climate literacy and allied sensitization programmes as critical.
