The Perception Of Farmers On The Effect Of Climate Change On Farm Produce

The Perception Of Farmers On The Effect Of Climate Change On Farm Produce

Abstract

The exploration was carried out grounded on the perception of growers of the effect of climate change on ranch yield.

The end of the study was to identify colorful climatic factors that can affect tilling system which include daylight( hot temperature), downtime, equinox, downfall, summer, dispassionateness, wind etc and also places where lakes, gutters ocean/ ocean, sluice, jewels hills timber etc are available.

Critically, the study revealed that downfall and dry season are the common features in Nigerian climate which are the natural determinant for ranch yield.

The study assessed the problems associated with climate change and how growers can manage with similar goods.

It was derived from the study that high temperature can be dangerous to crop yield and inordinate downfall can affect to flooding and washing off nutrients in soil and making it unfit for planting.

The study revealed data that growers are apprehensive of multitudinous factors that can be responsible for climate change similar as changes in downfall, inordinate wind, high temperature and deficit of downfall.

The exploration was carried out in Lagos State Agricultural Supply Input Authority, Ojo Lagos State.

Sixty( 60) repliers were named as the sample size for the study. The three( 3) null( Ho) thesis formulated for the study were all rejected and the alternate forms were accepted.

The instrument for the study was the questionnaires and it contained( 30) thirty exploration questions.

conversations and findings were grounded on the outgrowth of the responses.

The experimenter holds confidence that if the finding and conversations made in this study are given due consideration and enforced, it’ll go a long way to enable our growers to manage with climate change to enhance ranch yield.

Chapter One

Preface

The theme of this exploration is grounded on the perception of growers of the effect of climate change on ranch yield. It has been logically argued that climate change may appreciatively and negatively affect the growth of crop in agrarian system.

In some broken down analysis, climate is a sole determinant for the success of ranch yield and its crop as well. Emphasis are hereby made below under some given headlines.

Background To The Study

According toKolbert.,( 2006) climate encompasses the temperatures, moisture, atmospheric pressure, winds, downfall, atmospheric flyspeck count and multitudinous other meteorological rudiments in a given region over long ages of time, as opposed to the term rainfall, which refers to current exertion of these same rudiments.

The climate of a position is affected by its latitude, terrain, altitude, patient ice or snow cover, as well as near abysses and their currents.

Climates can be classified using parameters similar temperature and downfall to define specific climate types.( Seiz, 2007)

According to Haeberli,( 2008) from Montana State University, climate change is any long term significant change in the anticipated patterns of average rainfall of a specific region( or, more relevantly to contemporary socio- political enterprises, of the earth as a whole) over an meetly significant period of time.

Susanne, and Veizer( 2008) revealed that climate change reflects abnormal variations to the anticipated climate within the earth’s atmosphere and posterior goods on other corridor of the earth, similar as in the ice caps over durations ranging from decades to million of times.

Reports revealed by theinter-governmental panel on climate change( IPCC 2007) stated that climate change in the exploration of a great numerous factors including the dynamic processes of the earth itself, external forces including variation in sun intensity, and more lately by mortal conditioning, which might in future be deliberate geo- engineering. External factors that can shape climate are frequently called climate forcing and include similar processes as variations in solar radiation, diversions in the Earths route and the position of hothouse gas attention.

There have been so numerous variations on carbondioxide( Co2) during the last 50 million times. The increased carbondioxide position are allowed to complicate the heating goods of the hothouse effect by reading there-radiation of heat from the sun and, thus, adding the temperature contained in the atmosphere.

As the capability of the atmosphere to capture and reclaim energy emitted by the Earth’s face is essential to a stable climate, this heightened temperature may introduce ade-stabilizing influence and potentially affect global rainfall patterns and ultimately, long- term climate change.

Source Buckley, and Wallace, 2008)

Framers sweats on yielding mass crop and encouraging large colony may be seriously terminated and hampered from the perception of climate change. Where indispensable instruments aren’t introduced to offset the factors militating against favourable climate on ranch produce this may lay a set back on agrarian input and affair by our growers.

It obvioused that climate change had contributed towards initiating introductory subsistence husbandry system order than the mechanized husbandry product for large request of ranch yield.

For illustration, a region where climate change had hampered the possibility of regular factual downfall perfectly, water system irrigation can be applied to instinctively force wet contents on crop growth and perfecting regular crop.

growers in Nigeria moment are faced with variable challenges on climate change making the agrarian sector prone to difficulties in enhancing crop product as a result of weak indispensable installations, accoutrements and scientific instruments to ameliorate the range of husbandry.

Dr Daniel( 2008) from the University of Maiduguri revealed findings that climate change plays a significant part in husbandry by setting up limits for crop product. The main climatic rudiments in husbandry are temperature, humidity, sun, wind and evaporation. utmost crops are sensitive to occurrences of high temperature. High temperatures between 45oc and 55oc that do for at least 30 twinkles directly, damage crop leaves in utmost surroundings, and lower temperatures between 35- 40oc can be damaging if they persist longer.

Awosika, and Ajayi,( 2002) editorialized that vulnerability of crops to damage by high temperatures varies with experimental stage therefore, high temperatures during reproductive development are particularly pernicious. For illustration, to sludge at tussling, to soybean at flowering and to wheat at grain stuffing.

Soybean in one of crops that seems to have the capability to recover from heat stress, maybe, because it’s in determinate.

Whereas as stated by Adefolau( 2000) food crops like yam, cocoyam, potatoes, cassava can get damage( burnt) due to inordinate heat temperature.

rush, being the primary source of soil humidity is presumably the most important factor determining the productivity of fraternity. While global climate models prognosticate an overall increase in mean global rush, their results also show the eventuality for changed hydrological administrations in utmost places.

Ojo( 2000) a change in climate can beget changes in total rush, within season pattern, and between season variability for crop productivity, a change in the pattern of rush events may be indeed more important than a change in the periodic rush. The water governance of crops is also vulnerable to a implicit rise in the diurnal rate and advised seasonal pattern of rush events may be indeed more important than a change in the periodic rush. The water governance of crops is also vulnerable to a implicit rise in the diurnal rate and altered seasonal pattern of evapotranspiration, brought on by warm temperature, drier air, or windier conditions. Drought conditions may be brought about by lower quantities of rush falling.

Oni( 2001) opines that ranch produce and yield volume are likely to suffer if dry ages do during critical experimental stages. In utmost grain crops, flowering, pollination and grain stuffing are especially sensitive to water stress, heat stress and failure stresses frequently do contemporaneously one contributing to the other. High solar radiance and high winds frequently accompany these conditions. When crops are subordinated to failure stress, their stomata near, similar check reduces transportation and accordingly, raises factory temperatures. exorbitantly wet times, on the other hand, may beget ranch produce declines due to water logging and increased pest infestation(Dr. Daniel, 2008).

violent burst of downfall may damage youngish shops and promote water logging of standing crops with repining grain, as well as soil corrosion. The extent of crop damage depends on the duration of rush and flooding, crop experimental stage, air and soil temperatures.

Statement Of The Problem

The exploration tends to examine the perception of growers of the effect of climate change on ranch yield.

Climate change may serve as a factor that can hamper crop yield and as similar bring to an end the agrarian conditioning of growers.

It’s a problem that if growers have no means to face and attack the global climate models affecting yield processes ranch produce can maximally decline due to acute change in climate. But it’s believed that this can be controlled through some adaption options as proposed and laid down byDr. Adejuwon( 2004) from Obafemi Awolowo University( OAU). It has been revealed in his findings and conversations and likewise other affiliated scholars.

Climate change will be a bone of contention on growers posing walls to factual ranch produce until proper adaptation and specialized adaption models are absorbed and employed by our growers.

Purpose Of The Study

The objects of the exploration are stated below as follows.

To examine the colorful climate change and how they affect ranch produce in Nigeria.

ii. To estimate possible adaption options that can be employed by growers for responding to climate change.

iii. To produce an mindfulness on climate change and how it can be controlled on ranch yield by growers to assess the factors militating climate change and the problems faced by growers.

iv. To assess the factors militating climate change and the problems faced by growers on ranch yield.

Exploration Questions

The following exploration questions had been formulated for the exploration as follows

Does climate change affect ranch produce in Nigeria?

ii. Can growers respond to climate change through possible adaption options on ranch produce?

iii. Can climate change be controlled in ranch yield by growers through a critical mindfulness?

iv. What are the factors militating climate change and the problems faced by growers on ranch produce?

Exploration Suppositions

The null suppositions were formulated for the exploration as follows

Ho Climate change has no significant effect on ranch produce in agrarian system in Nigeria.

Ho There’s no significant responses to growers to climate change through possible adaption models.

Ho There’s no significant relationship between the factors responsible for climate change and problems encountered by growers on ranch yield.

Significance Of The Study

The study reversals the factors responsible for climate change and the goods they’ve on ranch yield.

The exploration relates the introductory problems encountered by growers on ranch produce through climate change.

The exploration reveals indispensable models as adaption options that can be employed and experimented by growers in neutralizing climate change on ranch yield. The study shows the interaction of climate change and the problems of growers on agrarian yield.

The study will reveal how climate change affect the colorful crops in husbandry system and the means that can be espoused to help any farther damage on similar crops.

The study will relate perfectly that climate change can pose storehouse on ranch produce thereby affecting the marketing system of agrarian out put and lead to high cost per unit of yield.

growers, agrarian scientists, food technologists, scientists and preceptors will device possible result from this study as a reference accoutrements in diving and neutralizing climate change on ranch yield.

The exploration serves as a resource knowledge to government in taking necessary way towards responding to climate change and maintain technology standard in agrarian sector in Nigeria.

Compass And Limitation Of The Study

The study is limited to Lagos State Agricultural Supply Input Authority of Ojo Local District Area of Lagos State. A selection of sixty( 60) repliers will be made aimlessly by the experimenter. These repliers include manly and womanish likewise. They shall be used for collecting respondence as data fro the study.

The experimenter was brazened by major constraints to carry out this exploration and they include

The experimenter was brazened by major constraints to carry out this exploration and they include

fiscal problems, stress, energy wasted by the experimenter. And the long distance to be covered and also the pains in opting and meeting the respondence to gather useful information for the study.

Description Of Terms

Farmer A person who grows field crops and or manages vineyards or stations or raises beast or flesh.

Husbandry refers to the product of food and goods through husbandry and forestry and flesh keeping.

Ranch A field, for planting crops and gathering them and also a place meant for raising beast.

Forestry the wisdom or practice of planting and taking care of perm and timber.