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majorities of both male and female farmers got their climate change
information from extension agents. About half of the male cassava farmers
were informed through the broadcast media via TV and radio while only about
a third were informed about climate change via same broadcast media for
female cassava farmers. The implication of the above is that extension agents
remained the largest source of information to both male and female cassava
farmers in study area. The results of these findings are different from that of
(Ajayi, 2015) who discovered that extension workers only played little role in
informing cassava farmers on the climate change. Extension agents, broadcast
media and research institutions should therefore be in the forefront of any
government or other stakeholders’ pragrammes or policies aimed at
disseminating information to cassava farmers on climate change.
*Multiple responses exited.
Source: Computed from field survey, 2015.
Figure 2.
Gender-Based Cassava Farmers’ Constraints to Climate Change
Adaptation in the Study Area
Out of seven major constraints to climate change adaptation identified in
the study area by cassava farmers themselves in Table 4, poor environmental