Sources of Information on Climate Change among Arable Crop Farmers, Edo State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study assessed the sources of information on climate change among arable crop farmers in Edo state, Nigeria using appropriate standard methods. Result revealed that, 42.4% of the respondents were below the mean age (45 years). Majority of them (58.8%) were males and 64.0% 69% were married, Majority (58.3%) of the total population of the study have secondary education. Majority (36.7%) had farming as their source of labour. Friends, relations and fellow farmers were the most frequent sources of information on climate change among the respondents. The study showed that of all the socio-economic characteristics examined, ues of information sources is significantly related to house hold size (r = 0.000, P< 0.05) but not significant related to Age (r = 0.479, P< 0.05), level of education (r = 0.329, P< 0.05), income (r = -0.080, P< 0.05), labour (r = 0.296, P< 0.05) , sex (r = 0.353, P< 0.05) marital status (r = 0.125, P< 0.05), It is recommended that, Extension providers should intensify the provision of extension services by insuring increased interaction between arable crop farmers and extension agents to complement indigenous knowledge from fellow farmers and friends and relation.