Abstract:
The study examined effect of climate change on agriculture in the saline prone
areas, and estimate the level of contribution of the selected characteristics of
the farmers to the effect of climate change on agriculture. The methods of the
study is an integration of quantitative and qualitative methods based on data
collection. Data were collected from 88 farmers under study group and 30
farmers under control group from 16 March, 2017 to 15 April, 2017.
Descriptive statistics, multiple regression, t-test were used for data analysis.
There was a negative effect of climate change on agriculture comparing the
study and control group changed score from 2015 to 2017. In case of study
group, 61.4 percent of the farmers had medium effect, 17.0 percent had low
effect and 21.6 percent of the farmers had high Effect of climate change on
agriculture. Among the variables: age, level of education, annual family
income, farming experience, training exposure, agricultural knowledge and
knowledge on climate change had significant contribution to the effect of
climate change on agriculture in the saline prone areas. It is concluded that
climate change may play a significant role in decreasing the yield of cereal
crops, yield of vegetables, yield of pulses and increasing number of adopted
new varieties of agricultural crops by the farmers. It is recommended that the
Bangladesh government should take initiative for reducing effect of climate
change on agriculture for a sustainable agricultural development.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Faculty of Agriculture,
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka,
in Partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS)
IN
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION