Asessment of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies Among Rice Farmers in Lere Local Government Kaduna State

The major objective of the study was to ASSESSED the climate change adaptation strategies adopted by rice farmers in Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The specific objectives of the study was to describe the socio-economic characteristics of rice farmers in the study area, identify the climate adaptation strategies adopted by rice farmers, assess the effect of climate change among rice farmers, determine the factors influence adoption of climate change apadaptation strategies among rice farmers and identify the constraints faced by rice farmers in the adoption of climate change adaptation strategies. Multi-stage sampling procedure were used to select 100 rice farmers in the study area and data were collected through distribution of structured questionnaire. Frequency, percentage, mean and tobit regression model was used to analysed the collected data. However, the result showed that majority of rice farmers in the study area were male 81%, 33% were between the Age range of 51-60 years, 89% were married and 63% had informal education. 53% majority of the respondents in the areas had between 31–40 years of farming experience, and also 53% of the respondents earns between N101000- N200000 per annum as income, The gender of the respondents had positive coefficient (0.050) and indicating that male farmers are expected to have a unit higher level of climate adaptation compared to female farmers, result also shows the contribution of the baseline level of climate change adaptation, when all predictors are set to zero, is estimated at 0.350. This value represents the expected level of adaptation strategies for an average farmer with the basic characteristics. From the problems of the study are high cost of input 72%, inaduquecy of climate information 68%, insufficiency of financial resources 67% and shortage of land 62%.