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Evaluation of Extension Services Delivery for Climate Change Adaptation by Crop Farmers in Niger State, Nigeria

机译：尼日利亚尼日尔州农作物种植者适应气候变化的推广服务评估

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Agriculture mostly depends on weather and climate for optimum productivity. Climate change has become a global threat to agriculture and humanity . To cope with these changes, farmers employ adaptation strategies. This paper evaluates the Extension Service Delivery for Climate Change Adaptation by Crop Farmers in Niger State, Nigeria. Multistage sampling technique was used to randomly select 162 respondents. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Likert-scale. The results showed that respondents were mostly (81.13%) male, between 31 and 45 years of age (42.14%). They had one form of formal education (52%) or the other; 74.21% had extension contact; without access to credit. Extension services used for technological transfer were extension meetings, method demonstration, result demonstration and mass media. These extension services may be inadequate to effectively transfer climate change adaptation strategies to farmers. Farmers’ sources of information were mainly radio, extension agents, fellow farmers and television. Farmers’ level of awareness on climate change adaptation strategies was not high. Planting of improved crop varieties, change in planting dates and mixed farming were some strategies used by the farmers. The impact of climate change observed to be very high were high temperature (3.86), low rainfall (3.61) and low output/yield (3.57). These impacts cause shortage in the food supply, malnutrition, poor health status and poverty to farming households. Farmers are faced with the inadequate fund (96.23%); lack of access to weather forecast information (89.94%); and high cost of improved and resistant varieties (86.79%). It, therefore, concludes that Extension Services are a pertinent means of improving climate change adaptation strategies; however, Extension services available are inadequate. The study recommends that extension agents should visit crop farmers more regularly to increase awareness to boost farmers' knowledge on adaptation strategies; credit facilities and inputs should be provided to the farmers timely and at the required quantity.
机译：农业主要依靠天气和气候来实现最佳生产力。气候变化已成为对农业和人类的全球威胁。为了应对这些变化，农民采用了适应策略。本文评估了尼日利亚尼日尔州农作物种植者适应气候变化的扩展服务交付。多阶段抽样技术用于随机选择162位受访者。使用描述性统计量和李克特量表对数据进行分析。结果显示，受访者中大多数为男性（81.13％），年龄在31至45岁之间（42.14％）。他们接受了一种形式的正规教育（52％）或​​另一种形式; 74.21％的人有扩展联系;无法获得信贷。用于技术转让的推广服务包括推广会议，方法论证，结果论证和大众媒体。这些推广服务可能不足以有效地将适应气候变化的战略转让给农民。农民的信息来源主要是广播，推广人员，农民同伴和电视。农民对气候变化适应战略的认识水平不高。种植改良作物品种，改变播种日期和混合耕种是农民采用的一些策略。观察到的气候变化影响非常大，包括高温（3.86），低降雨量（3.61）和低产量/单产（3.57）。这些影响导致粮食供应短缺，营养不良，健康状况不佳以及农户贫穷。农民面临资金不足（96.23％）的问题;无法获得天气预报信息（89.94％）;改良和抗病品种的成本较高（86.79％）。因此，它得出结论，推广服务是改善气候变化适应战略的相关手段;但是，可用的扩展服务不足。该研究建议推广人员应更定期地拜访农作物种植者，以提高认识，以提高他们对适应战略的认识;信贷设施和投入物应按规定数量及时提供给农民。

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