The descriptive study was conducted during 2014-15 in the purposively selected eight villages representing climatechange intensity areas in Northern dry (Zone 3) and Northern transition (Zone 8) of north Karnataka. The results on adoptionof contingent kharif crop planning in zone 3 revealed that, majority of farmers found to adopt most of the recommended cropsexcept maize, pigeonpea, castor, sesamum, horsegram and blackgram but not adopting recommended intercropping systems,whereas farmers are cultivating inter cropping chilli + onion (1:5), and sorghum+ pigeonpea (6:1). In zone 8, farmers preferredmono crops rather intercropping systems but found to cultivate sunflower, onion, sesamum, littlemillet and cowpea. Similarlyduring rabi season, farmers of zone 3 and 8 preferred recommended mono crops than recommended intercropping systems, butwere following intercropping of safflower with chickpea and wheat. Fodder crops cultivation was not noticed in both zonessince dairy component was predominantly absent. The crop productivity levels during kharif season for delayed sowings inboth the zones revealed reduced yields in maize (8 to 29%), and groundnut (18 to 47%) when compared to Bt cotton (39 to60%) and chili (33 to 55%). Similarly, delayed sowings in rabi season shown low decreased productivity in safflower (18 to42%) and sorghum (22 to 47%) as compared to wheat (23 to 67%) and chickpea (36 to 58%) crops. Farmers suggested the needfor demonstrating the contingent crops and cropping system ( 91.32 Garrett score), providing economic support to encourageadoption of contingency crop planning (79.43 Garrett score), fine tuning of location specific climate change resilient practices(78.23 Garrett score) and others for strengthening the capacity of farmers towards climate resilient agriculture.