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Abstract: The present study was conducted in Nalbari district of Assam state, India to assess the degree of information need of participant farmers of the National Innovations on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) projectwith reference to climate change adaptation and to identify the factors influencing their degree of information need. Four villages covered under the NICRA project were selected purposively for the study. From each of the four selected villages, 30 respondents, who were participant farmers of the NICRA project, were selected randomly. Thus, 120 participant farmers constituted the sample of respondents for the study. Data were collected by personal interview method with the help of a structured schedule. Findings indicated that majority of the respondents (75.00%) had medium degree of information need with reference to climate change adaptation followed by 16.67% of respondents with high degree of information need and 8.33% of respondents with low degree of information need with reference to climate change adaptation. In order to identify the factors influencing the farmers� degree of information need, the correlation of 16 selected independent variables with degree of information need was found out with the help of Pearson Product- Moment Correlation Co-efficient.The significance of an observed correlation co-efficient was ascertained with the help of �t� test. The decision criterion was stipulated at 0.01 and 0.05 level of probability. Out of 16 selected independent variables, 7 variables, viz., Educational level, Family type, Farm size, Social participation, Management orientation, Innovation proneness and Economic motivation showed significant positive relationship with the degree of information needs of farmers at 0.01 level. While annual income showed significant positive relationship with the information needs of farmers, farming experience showed significant negative relationship with the information needs of farmers at 0.05 level.