Context: FAO states that disasters have an outsized impact on the agriculture sector, leading to large-scale economic losses and causing physical damage to the lands, resources and livelihood assets. Farmers’ knowledge on disaster risks reduction practices plays major role in sustainable agricultural production.Objectives: The study was to assess the farmers’ awareness and knowledge level on disaster risk reduction practices and study socio-economic attributes of farmer respondents as well as to find out the relationship between disaster risk reduction practices with socio-economic attributes of the respondents. Dhemaji district under North Bank Plain Agro-Climatic Zone of Assam. Methodology: A multi-stage, purposive cum random sampling design was used in the study for selecting 120 respondents. Knowledge Test was used to assess the farmers’ knowledge level on disaster risk reduction practices. Results and Discussion: The study revealed that majority of the respondent farmers had low level of knowledge on disaster risk reduction practices. Correlation analysis of the independent variables of the study with knowledge of farmers on disaster risk reduction practices revealed that four independent variables, viz., size of land holding, age, education and risk bearing ability were positively and significantly correlated with disaster risk reduction practices. The study implies that there is a need of farm disaster mitigation led extension and existing agricultural extension and advisory service efforts need to be strengthened to enhance the knowledge of farmers on farm disaster risk reduction practices.

Keyword: Knowledge test, Disaster risk reduction, Socio-economic attributes, Flood prone area,