EFFECTIVENESS OF ADAPTATION STRATEGIES TO CLIMATE CHANGE AS PERCEIVED BY THE FARMERS OFNOAKHALI DISTRICT

Abstract

ABSTRACT The objectives of the study were to determine socio-economic profile of the farmers of Noakhali district; to determine farmers’ opinion about effectiveness of adaptation strategies to climate change and to explore the contributing factors that affect farmers’ selected characteristics with their effectiveness of adaptation strategies to climate change. The study was undertaken purposively in three villages of Chatkhil upazila under Noakhali district. A validated and well-structured interview schedule was used to collect data from 103 farmers during 1 st

February to 28 th February 2021. Descriptive statistics and multiple regressions were used for analysis. The highest percentage (85.44%) of the farmers had medium effectiveness of adaptation strategies to climate change compared to 1.94 percent of the farmers as low effectiveness and 12.62 percent of the farmers had high effectiveness of adaptation strategies to climate change. Among 11 selected characteristics of the farmers, 5 characteristics namely, education, farm size, access to extension services, knowledge on climate change and use of climate smart agricultural technologies of the respondents had significant positive contribution to their effectiveness of adaptation strategies to climate change. The rest 6 characteristics namely, age, family size, annual family income, organizational participation, agricultural extension media contact and perception on climate change had no significant contribution with their effectiveness of adaptation strategies to climate change. Majority of the farmers had medium to high effectiveness of adaptation strategies to climate change. It is, therefore, recommended that necessary steps should be taken to motivate the farmers in participating different organization. Extension workers must be well trained on the newly adaptation practices. Proper arrangements should be made for enhancing the education level of the farmers by the concerned authorities through the establishment of night school, adult education and other extension methods as possible.