Table 2.
Major adaptation strategies to climate change practiced by farm households.
|
Pooled |
Participants |
Non-participants |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Adaptation strategies | Mean | Mean | Mean |
| No adaptation strategies | 0.197 | 0.168 | 0.232 |
| Agricultural related adaptation strategies | |||
| Varying of land size (VLS) | 0.464 | 0.418 | 0.518 |
| Changing farming calendar (CFC) | 0.697 | 0.724 | 0.665 |
| Sales of crops/seedbank (SC_S) | 0.578 | 0.571 | 0.585 |
| Sharecropping (SC) | 0.594 | 0.607 | 0.579 |
| Livestock diversification (LD) | 0.597 | 0.597 | 0.598 |
| Crop diversification/multiple/intercropping (CD) | 0.661 | 0.688 | 0.628 |
| Crop specialization (mono-cropping) (CS_M) | 0.536 | 0.555 | 0.521 |
| Technology application related adaptation strategy | |||
| Use of improved crop variety (ICV) | 0.703 | 0.735 | 0.665 |
| Application of Agrochemicals (AG_CH) | 0.678 | 0.694 | 0.659 |
| Application of organic fertilizer/mulching (ORG_FZ) | 0.594 | 0.571 | 0.622 |
| Application of soil and water conservation (SWC) practices | 0.672 | 0.694 | 0.646 |
Note: c denotes significance level at 10%. Participants refer to farm households who participated in non-farm work while non-participants denote those who did not.