J. Sci. Technol. Environ. Inform. | Volume 09, Issue 01, 618-628 | https://doi.org/10.18801/jstei.090120.63
Article type: Research article, Article received: 03.01.2020; Revised: 09.02.2020; Date of Publication: 05 March 2020.
Article type: Research article, Article received: 03.01.2020; Revised: 09.02.2020; Date of Publication: 05 March 2020.
Farmers’ extent of adaptation strategies towards salinity effects in agriculture
Md. Arifur Rahman Peal 1, Muhammad Humayun Kabir 1, Mohummed Shofi Ullah Mazumder 1, Prome Debnath 2 and Avijit Biswas 3
1 Dept. of Agricultural Extension and Information System, Sher-E-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka
2 Dept. of Disaster Risk Management, Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Patuakhali
3 Dept. of Agriculture, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibar Rahman Science and Technology University, Gazipur, Bangladesh
✉ Corresponding author: [email protected] (Prome Debnath)
1 Dept. of Agricultural Extension and Information System, Sher-E-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka
2 Dept. of Disaster Risk Management, Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Patuakhali
3 Dept. of Agriculture, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibar Rahman Science and Technology University, Gazipur, Bangladesh
✉ Corresponding author: [email protected] (Prome Debnath)
Abstract
Climate change has emerged as one of the greatest environmental challenges facing the world today. Salinity intrusion in soil is one of the major concerns of climate change, which mainly caused due to cyclone and sea level rise. Salinity influences unfavorable environment and hydrological situations that directly restrict the normal crop production and indirectly fall affects income which leads poor socio-economic status. The study was about extent of adaptation strategies of farmers’ who were struggling to adapt salinity effects in agriculture day by day. The purpose of the study was to describe the socio-economic profile of the salinity affected farmers in the study area; to determine farmers’ extent of adaptation strategies towards salinity effects in agriculture and to explore contributing relationship between the selected characteristics of the salinity affected farmers and their extent of adaptation strategies towards salinity effects in agriculture. The study was undertaken purposively in Kalapara upazila under Patuakhali district of Bangladesh. Validated and well-structured interview schedule (questionnaire) was used to collect data from 131 farmers. The findings showed that majority of the farmers (48.1 percent) had medium level adaptation towards salinity effects in agriculture. The results also showed that farmers’ age (.001**), educational background (.039*), farming experience (.033*), agricultural extension contact (.007**) and farmer’s category (.000**) were significant factors for farmers’ extent of adaptation strategies towards salinity effects in agriculture; and within this, age, agricultural extension contact and farmer’s category were the most significant contributing factors. It is concluded that, the study area’s farmers had an opportunity to enhance their knowledge through proper school or mass education that made them enthusiastic and interested to take risk and motivated them to come out from traditional practices in agriculture and using innovative adaptive strategies to cope with salinity effect on the agriculture sector.
Key Words: Agriculture, Farmers, Salinity, Adaptation and Climate Change.
Climate change has emerged as one of the greatest environmental challenges facing the world today. Salinity intrusion in soil is one of the major concerns of climate change, which mainly caused due to cyclone and sea level rise. Salinity influences unfavorable environment and hydrological situations that directly restrict the normal crop production and indirectly fall affects income which leads poor socio-economic status. The study was about extent of adaptation strategies of farmers’ who were struggling to adapt salinity effects in agriculture day by day. The purpose of the study was to describe the socio-economic profile of the salinity affected farmers in the study area; to determine farmers’ extent of adaptation strategies towards salinity effects in agriculture and to explore contributing relationship between the selected characteristics of the salinity affected farmers and their extent of adaptation strategies towards salinity effects in agriculture. The study was undertaken purposively in Kalapara upazila under Patuakhali district of Bangladesh. Validated and well-structured interview schedule (questionnaire) was used to collect data from 131 farmers. The findings showed that majority of the farmers (48.1 percent) had medium level adaptation towards salinity effects in agriculture. The results also showed that farmers’ age (.001**), educational background (.039*), farming experience (.033*), agricultural extension contact (.007**) and farmer’s category (.000**) were significant factors for farmers’ extent of adaptation strategies towards salinity effects in agriculture; and within this, age, agricultural extension contact and farmer’s category were the most significant contributing factors. It is concluded that, the study area’s farmers had an opportunity to enhance their knowledge through proper school or mass education that made them enthusiastic and interested to take risk and motivated them to come out from traditional practices in agriculture and using innovative adaptive strategies to cope with salinity effect on the agriculture sector.
Key Words: Agriculture, Farmers, Salinity, Adaptation and Climate Change.
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Peal, M. A. R. et al. “Farmers’ extent of adaptation strategies towards salinity effects in agriculture”. Journal of Science, Technology and Environment Informatics, 09(01) (2020): 618-628.
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Peal, M. A. R., Kabir, M. H., Mazumder, M. S. U., Debnath, P. and Biswas A. (2020). Farmers’ extent of adaptation strategies towards salinity effects in agriculture. Journal of Science, Technology and Environment Informatics, 09(01), 618-628.
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Peal, M. A. R., Kabir, M. H., Mazumder, M. S. U., Debnath, P. and Biswas, A. “Farmers’ extent of adaptation strategies towards salinity effects in agriculture”. Journal of Science, Technology and Environment Informatics, 09(01) (2020): 618-628.
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Peal, M. A. R., Kabir, M. H., Mazumder, M. S. U., Debnath, P. and Biswas, A. 2020. Farmers’ extent of adaptation strategies towards salinity effects in agriculture. Journal of Science, Technology and Environment Informatics, 09(01), pp. 618-628.
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Peal, MAR, Kabir, MH, Mazumder, MSU, Debnath, P. Biswas, A. Farmers’ extent of adaptation strategies towards salinity effects in agriculture. Journal of Science, Technology and Environment Informatics, 2020 March 09(01): 618-628.
Peal, M. A. R. et al. “Farmers’ extent of adaptation strategies towards salinity effects in agriculture”. Journal of Science, Technology and Environment Informatics, 09(01) (2020): 618-628.
APA
Peal, M. A. R., Kabir, M. H., Mazumder, M. S. U., Debnath, P. and Biswas A. (2020). Farmers’ extent of adaptation strategies towards salinity effects in agriculture. Journal of Science, Technology and Environment Informatics, 09(01), 618-628.
Chicago
Peal, M. A. R., Kabir, M. H., Mazumder, M. S. U., Debnath, P. and Biswas, A. “Farmers’ extent of adaptation strategies towards salinity effects in agriculture”. Journal of Science, Technology and Environment Informatics, 09(01) (2020): 618-628.
Harvard
Peal, M. A. R., Kabir, M. H., Mazumder, M. S. U., Debnath, P. and Biswas, A. 2020. Farmers’ extent of adaptation strategies towards salinity effects in agriculture. Journal of Science, Technology and Environment Informatics, 09(01), pp. 618-628.
Vancouver
Peal, MAR, Kabir, MH, Mazumder, MSU, Debnath, P. Biswas, A. Farmers’ extent of adaptation strategies towards salinity effects in agriculture. Journal of Science, Technology and Environment Informatics, 2020 March 09(01): 618-628.
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