Table 2 Summary of farmers’ climate experience.
Access to climate information | Percentage |
|---|---|
FBO/CBO | 3.7 |
NGO | 3.7 |
Extension officers | 1.6 |
Friends | 20 |
TV | 10 |
Radio | 60 |
Insurance company | 1 |
Perception about climate variability | |
Bush burning | 28 |
Don’t know why | 15 |
Natural | 27 |
Deforestation | 30 |
Copping strategies | |
Did nothing | 56 |
Early planting | 22 |
Mixed farming | 3 |
Mixed cropping | 5 |
Trading | 7 |
Tree planting | 7 |
Climate change effects | |
Erratic rainfall | 18.10 |
Increase temperature | 39.05 |
Shorter rainfall | 24.76 |
Reduce rain quantity | 13.97 |
Floods | 2.86 |
Increase diseases occurrence | 0.95 |
Others | 0.32 |